On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, John Rowe wrote: > Before anything else, thanks to the exim authors for all their hard > work.
Thank you. > We had a problem yesterday when a disk failed and exim started rejecting > all mail with a "Do not retry" (5xx) error code. The text indicated a > "no such user" error. This stopped our upstream relay from trying our > alternate host. I'm a bit surprised that it gave 5xx rather than 4xx. It would be useful to be able to find out why it did that. I have made a note to eyeball the code at some point (but probably not before 4.61) to see if I can see the reason. I supposse a simulated getpwnam failure might show it. > I really want a total disk failure to cause mail to go to my alternate > host not just bounce! Perfectly reasonable! -- 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/
