On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Alan J. Flavell wrote: > > That's somewhat churlish. I've frequently encountered situations > which give SERVFAIL one day (with a 4xx response) and Unrouteable > (with a 5xx response) on another day. > > My response involves a file (or .db if you prefer) listing domains > which we believe to be unreachable, or not participating properly in > email, for various reasons (such as SERVFAIL, protocol-violating > responses, postmaster rejection, abuse mailbox full, and so on).
I personally see little point in expending effort to deal with sites that have persistently broken DNS. > I'm not aware of anything in exim itself that could turn this tempfail > into a permfail - and, indeed, doing that for something involving the > DNS seems rather risky to me, since occasional DNS glitches are by no > means unusual. mx_fail_domains Tony. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ ${sg{\N${sg{\ N\}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}\ \N}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}} -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
