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>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] la part de Bart Mortelmans
>Envoy=E9 : mardi 20 f=E9vrier 2007 12:17
>=C0 : [email protected]
>Objet : [xmail] Re: Nolisting
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>> If the primary MX is accepting connections and telling it to try
>> again later, don't SMTAs try the primary again before sending to a
>> secondary, hence the need for the RST packet in the firewall in the
>> nolisting info ? I might be totally wrong about that, but I was
>> thinking the secondary was only used when the primary was =
unreachable
>> or returning fatal errors ?
>>  =20
>
>When an MTA get a fatal error (5xx) it normally shouldn't try again at =

>all, also not on the secondary MX. A fatal error can for example by=20
>"recipient unknown".

Absolutly, fatal error codes 5xx (that means there was a successfull
connexion to remote mx) have the effect to stop any try, and return a =
ndr to
the sender.

>
>I don't know if there is a difference between the=20
>retry-schedule for no=20
>response from the primary MX, or a temporary error (4xx). I=20
>would assume=20
>that most MTA's would handle both the same way, but haven't=20
>tested this yet.

In theory, rfc don't say anything, so it make sense that a 'retry' is =
not to
be considered as a 'retry' except for the retry count, so the server =
have to
redo all tries as if the mail was just send first time (redo mx lookup, =
mx
test one by one, ...)

No connexion to an mx IS NOT to be count as a retry, and each mx try is =
in
the same 'atomic' send

>
>Sincerely,
>Bart Mortelmans
>
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