On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Ian P. Christian wrote: > I understand I might be able to set the 'temp_errors' option to defer > the sender with a 'try again later' response rather then a perminent > error, but ideally I should be able to get exim to handle a 'pipe' > failure in the same way it handles a 'smtp' error, and just put it in > the queue for later processing.
It does, _except_ that it cannot know without your help which errors are temporary and which are permanent. With SMTP, it's all defined in the RFC: 4xx errors are temporary and 5xx errors are permanent, and it treats errors like connection failure as temporary. For a pipe, it has no knowledge of what you are doing. The default is to assume a couple of standard error codes are temporary and the rest are permanent. As an OP says, if you put temp_errors = * it will treat all errors as temporary. -- 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/
