On 23/10/2006 09:57, Daniel Tiefnig wrote: > Yes. There is a problem with exims retry mechanism if a remote system is > greylisting based on recipient address, sender address and sender IP. As exim > gets a temporary error for "RCPT TO", it thinks the mailbox is currently not > available. Exim can't know that another e-mail in the queue with a different > sender address could actually get through to the recipient. With a moronic > greylisting setup (no auto-whitelisting) on the remote side and a lot of > emails this really is a problem. One may choose at which side the problem is, > though.
Is Exim designed to be clever, and not to attempt to deliver further messages to the same recipient? I thought it was just for hosts that were down, but I wonder if there's an option to disable this cleverness if it's not compatible with greylisting at remote sites. Cheers, John. -- ## 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/
