On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:26:23AM +0800, Adrian Hicks wrote: > As postmaster I occasionally get "The maximum number of delivery attempts > has been reached" messages. I usually test for an MX record for the > domain, & almost always there's no MX record returned.
Me too. And nearly everytime the problem started 'before the keyboard'. I.e. people try to send mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or so. Most common errors (at our site) are misspelled domains or nonexistent users in adresses. > Is this common? I'm assuming that such a delivery error would be the same > no matter what MTA is used. Yes, at least what I discribed above is common to all MTAs. Where no domain exists, no MTA can send mail to :-) hope that helps Goesta -- Wiener Hilfswerk - EDV 1072 Wien, Schottenfeldgasse 29 Tel: 512 36 61 DW 407 / Fax 512 36 61 33 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
