On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 14:10 +0000, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > > the retry entry for B will be for the host if it sends 4xx in the > > banner, right? > > True, but nevertheless, I still don't think it will behave as you > suggested. At a host level, Exim will believe that host A is ok, but > host B is permanently dead. So it will stop trying host B. But that > won't make it bounce the recipient until it (the recipient) times out. > > At least, that's what is supposed to happen. There are always bugs...
well, it happened here. the servers A and B were Postfix, though. -- Kjetil T. -- ## 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/
