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
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