Friday, June 13, 2003, 2:59:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is it normal for mail servers to continually try to deliver to an account > after it receives a 450 message ( "450 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: User unknown in > virtual mailbox table" ) from postfix? Yes, because a 400 series error is a non-fatal error so the remote MTA would keep retrying. > I see all of the attempts in > maillog and also received the following message from the originating mail > account: > < > Your message has encountered delivery problems > to the following recipient(s): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Delivery failed > Failed to deliver to domain domain.com after 54 tries. > Last error was: > I/O error encountered >> > How can I avoid this? # The unknown_local_recipient_reject_code specifies the SMTP server # response code when a recipient domain matches $mydestination or # $inet_interfaces, while $local_recipient_maps is non-empty and the # recipient address or address local-part is not found. # # The default setting is 550 (reject mail) but it is safer to start # with 450 (try again later) until you are certain that your # local_recipient_maps settings are OK. # unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 -- Chris Scott Host Orlando, Inc. http://www.hostorlando.com/
