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.



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