On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:39:45AM +0100, Stanislaw Halik said: > Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I propose for the wishlist a router option that would allow Exim to > > pass on to the next router if the text accompanying a 5yz error > > matches a specified regexp. This would provide the function that > > Daevid and I (and others) have enquired about: trying to route mail > > directly, but sending it through a manualroute if that is rejected > > because of an RBL. > > if i can contribute to this wishlist item: it'd be nice if it'd be a > fallback_hosts toggle, too. fallback_hosts just suits my needs, except > that it fails before using fallback hosts if there is a permanent > error.
I undeerstand your wishes, and I feel your pain. However, asking exim to do this will violate so many normative standards of mail handling I am just not sure it's a good idea. A 5xx is a permanent reject and should be considred so - I know that at the larger sites I admin, when I see a mail I have just 5xx'ed retried, I assume it is spam, and try to come up with a rule that will catch it as well. I am sorry, but the wish to work around a permanent failure just seems like a bad idea. It is just so fundamental to the basic concepts of SMTP handling that I can't imagine the good outweighing the bad. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Byte your tongue. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ## 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/
