On 2012-04-03 at 10:47 +0100, Oliver Howe wrote: > Is it possible to tell a router to fail or pass on the message to the > next router if it receives a 421 error from a host it is trying to > deliver to? > > Specifically I have a router that delivers to Postini (Google's email > signature/archiving solution - see > http://www.google.com/postini/email.html) for one of my outbound > domains. > But the Postini server often returns a "421 Server busy - try again > later" error message and then all outbound messages for that domain > get delayed whilst the retry time for the orginal message is > calculated.
Retry rules, Section 32 of The Exim Specification. Host errors result in two lookups, once for remote host, once for email address's domain. Constrain by error type. *@*.psmtp.com rcpt_421 F,1h,10m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,6h * * <default rules> -Phil -- ## List details at https://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/
