On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > ALL temporary errors become permanent if they persist for long enough. > > That's what timeouts are all about. Messages get bounced when servers > > are down for sufficiently long. I don't see why over quota errors are > > any different. > > Of course, but that's up to the sender not the receiver.
Who is "the sender" when a message passes through several MTAs? Are you saying that only the originating MTA is allowed to apply timeouts? > Would you announce a ``system is too busy'' or ``disk is > full'' error as 500 just because it had persisted for > longer than a threshold? Yes. "I have been trying to deliver your message for 5 days, but I cannot do so. Please return it to the sender. The most recent error I got was 'system is too busy'." > If not, why is ``over quota'' any different? It isn't. :-) -- 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/
