-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Charlie Brady wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Hanno Hecker wrote: > >> There's no real queueing mechanism with the smtp-forward plugin, the >> mail will be rejected with a temporary error, which means the mail will >> stay in the client's queue and sent later again... well at least for >> most MTAs. Some are buggy that they don't get the difference between a >> hard failure and a temporary problem and will not retry. > > Really? Which? If there are any MTAs less than, say, 15 years old with > such egregious behaviour, they should be shamed by public disclosure.
There are quite a lot of badly coded applications that send email - they often don't handle error message well - I recently fixed a Ruby app that barfed on 4xx errors. Regards James Turnbull - -- James Turnbull ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - -- Author of: - - Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590599780/) - - Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590596099/) - - Hardening Linux (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594444/) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHjq179hTGvAxC30ARAiIsAKC+1k3cDDPkfJx63CoHOsvl0Z7tUwCghL3r UW2Ro3H1OFAsOx9XQEVbcBg= =4xaJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
