Philip Hazel wrote... > I'm starting to look at this.
Thanks very much Philip. I can't even pretend to be a programmer - I can sometimes effect the change I want from someone else's code, but after an hour or two of fiddling with this issue I was still lost. > The first thing that occurs to me is that > 4XX is a temporary error which will not of itself cause the message to > be returned. The return will not happen until the retry time is > exceeded. Of course, you can set the retry time to zero, but logically > that's how Exim handles it. So I would have expected the message to be > "retry time exceeded" if anything. Can you confirm whether or not you > see that in your log? I will peer at the code and see if the 4XX error > message is still preserved, and then see if anything can be done. In the log we would see the actual error response - for example: 2006-03-01 17:50:30 1FEVSn-0002pP-Ll == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=ldap_mailrcpt T=dllstx09 defer (-44): SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host 1.2.3.4 [1.2.3.4]: 452 4.2.2 Over quota But, when the address eventually timed out, the bounce message would say only "retry time exceeded" as you suggest above. I did notice some strange behaviour with respect to retries while testing - some messages returned immediately when I expected them to be left on the queue. Can't really quantify that without more testing but that's of secondary concern to us at the moment. -- ## 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/
