On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Stephen Gran wrote: > 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.
This WishList suggestion is impossible to implement. Control cannot be given back to the routers after Exim has entered the transport phase. Remember: all the routing happens before any of the transporting. Fallback hosts would be the only practical possibility. However, I am in full agreement with Stephen when he writes: > 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 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. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## 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/
