On 13/03/07, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Peter Bowyer wrote: > On 13/03/07, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I'm trying to email someone and all their name servers are down, will I > get an unroutable address rather than having it wait and retry? > No - your circumstance will provoke a temporary failure. > > I would have thought that but that's not what's happening. I'm wondering why > I'm getting unroutable address due to DNS problems? Depends what the nature of the problem is, I guess - if the autoritative severs for the domain are returning NXDOMAIN somewhere, you could get unrouteable status - what's the domain name in question? Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## 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/
