Hi, On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 01:10:49PM +0100, Marco Herrn wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:11:47PM +0100, Paul Dekkers wrote: > > >But what is still confusing me, is that the mail don't get delivered. > > >When spamc gets a timeout, that should be a 4xx error (which is the > > >case). But why does the message bounce? > > > > ... good question :-) > > > > (Hmm, the exim -bS created the 4xx error, but the pipe / transport was a > > fatal error, I believe?) > > Of course! Since the mail is already accepted, the mailserver cannot > reject the mail, but instead has to bounce it. > Would be nice, if exim itself could try to redeliver the mail through > the transport after such errors. Is that possible in any way?
Use the pipe transport option timeout_defer (available since version 4.51) to treat the error as temporary in case the command or filter runs into a timeout. -- Gruss / Best regards | LF.net GmbH | fon +49 711 90074-411 Matthias Waffenschmidt | Ruppmannstr. 27 | fax +49 711 90074-33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-70565 Stuttgart | http://www.lf.net -- ## 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/
