On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Ross Boylan wrote: > The manual says that for the lmtp transport (describing the timeout > paramater): > > "The transport is aborted if the created process or Unix domain > socket does not respond to LMTP commands or message input within this > timeout" > > What exactly does "abort" mean here? In particular, does it mean the > message will be retried later?
Yes. I will add a sentence that says that explicitly. > Does it mean some other transport will be tried? No. There is no mechanism in Exim for trying a different transport if the one that is assigned by a router cannot do the job. > I expect the behavior I want is the way exim operates, but I'd like to > be sure. You are in luck! -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
