> > The mail will not be queued. > > There will be a "temporary delivery error" at the end of the > transaction. > > Yes and no. If you include multiple delivery plugins, qpsmtpd will try > each in turn (unless it gets a DENY answer), so you *could* attempt an > inline SMTP delivery and then fallback to another method which could be > a queue for later delivery. > > For example, I use qmqp (qmail queue protocol) as my primary delivery > method, but if the main server is down, I can queue the message for > later delivery via qmail-queue. NOTE that I only permit valid e-mail > addresses (via a plugin I wrote that uses the finger protocol), so I > never accept mail for delivery that I won't actually deliver. > > John
Right. In the mail I was responding to, there was only a mention to smtp-forward. If the forwarding fails, there is a delivery error if no other queue plugins are present. This was the question. Sydney.
