On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:35:33PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote: > 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?
I was considering the case of the system which is attempting final delivery detecting an over-quota condition and reporting it to a connected MTA as a permanent failure, rather than that of the connected MTA having seen 4xx errors continuously for a long time and reporting a 5xx quoting the text of the error. The latter is obviously behaving sensibly. -- ``The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.'' (George Bernard Shaw) -- ## 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/
