My whole thing was, why send a 421 if the SMTP code returned from the actual relay/mailhub is "5xx Account disabled." or some other 5xx non-deliverable.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Chris Lewis <cle...@nortel.com> wrote: > On 9/15/2010 3:51 AM, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > I have a strong suspicion that the author meant to write >> >> return(DENY, "Unable to queue message ($!)"); >> > > The new code is considerably better - works properly in the face of > temporary vs permanent errors from the backend server and provokes retries > if appropriate. It's how our (much hacked) smtp-forward works. > > (our smtp-forward tries multiple backend servers, and does a limited amount > of optimizing which one to use.) > > Parameterizing it for DECLINED vs DENY I guess would be best if someone is > expecting it to failover to another queuing plugin. It's more a notion of > whether you have multiple queuing plugins or not. >
