On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:53:51AM +0000, Graeme Fowler wrote: > But this is the whole point: the MTA has no knowledge of *why* the user > is over quota, just that they are. And that means the message cannot be > delivered (presumably after a configurable period), this it's a > permanent error.
no, it's a temporary error, because a future attempt with the same sender/receiver/data stands a reasonable chance of success without there being any oeprator intervention -- see the description in the RFC. -- ``Like any Englishman armed with a cricket bat, he was doomed to fail.'' (Guy Ladenburg, prosecuting, comments on Paul Kelleher's first attempt to behead a statue of Margaret Thatcher) -- ## 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/
