Le Wed 29/09/2010, mouss disait > Le 28/09/2010 23:44, motty.cruz a écrit : > >Hello, > >When a client has a typo in the recipient email address it takes 5 days for > >my SMTP server to notify that the user does not exist or was unable to > >deliver email. > > No. you are wrong. when you mistype an address, you get an immediate > error stating "doesn't exist". try sending mail to j...@netoyen.net > and tell me when you get the error. if it takes you 5 days to see an > error that was sent 5 days before, you have a serious issue. > > > >Any idea where to change the option to make it more reliable.
It might be that the receiving server is set up to return a temporary error code for unexistent address -- Erwan
