Philip Hazel wrote... > I found three bugs! Well, two bugs and one infelicity, I guess. This is > the ChangeLog entry for the fixes:
This is great news for me - you've really made my day. Thank you very much for looking into the problem so quickly. > PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is > used in LMTP mode: > > (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors > given for individual recipients after the DATA command when the > smtp transport was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could > be retried too frequently, and not timed out correctly. I think that probably covers the retry weirdness I'd noticed when testing. > (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be > returned for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors > for individual recipients that were returned after the DATA > command. That's the main issue we had - woohoo! > PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing > address, when detailed error information was permitted to be > returned to the sender, but the error was temporary, then after > the final timeout, only "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now > it returns the full error as well as "retry timeout exceeded". That will certainly be helpful for over quota conditions - excellent :) > I have committed the code for the fixes, so it will be in tonight's > snapshot. I will update our production Exim package in the next day or two. > Incidentally, smtp_return_error_details has nothing to do with this. It > is concerned with how much error detail to return when rejecting an > incoming message. I was confused about that. I don't think I really expected it to make a difference in the problem I reported but I was trying to be thorough before reporting it. Above, in PH/53 though, you mention "when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the sender" - how is that information permitted if not by the smtp_return_error_details setting? -- ## 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/
