On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 09:27 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > The manual says that for the lmtp transport (describing the timeout > > paramater): > > > > "The transport is aborted if the created process or Unix domain > > socket does not respond to LMTP commands or message input within this > > timeout" > > > > What exactly does "abort" mean here? In particular, does it mean the > > message will be retried later? > > Yes. I will add a sentence that says that explicitly. Excellent. > > > Does it mean some other transport will be tried? > > No. There is no mechanism in Exim for trying a different transport if > the one that is assigned by a router cannot do the job. > > > I expect the behavior I want is the way exim operates, but I'd like to > > be sure. > > You are in luck!
Thank you for the info, and for exim. Ross -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
