On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 17:53 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > If a message is deferred because of transport problems, does it get > re-routed when it is retried? > > I can't tell from the manual what the behavior is. It refers to a > "delivery attempt"; I can't tell whether that's a complete rerun of > message handling or just of the transport. The manual also says that > transports manage their own retries, which suggests they might just > re-attempt the delivery. > > Roger West's example (thanks for the reference) from 2010-03-09 seems to > imply rerouting occurs on retry, though it's not clear exactly how he > forced the mail off the queue. > > Searching around, I also found a message that seemed to imply the > routing was permanent--sorry can't find it now. Found it: In the same thread of March 9, Phil Pennock wrote "Once a mail has been routed, it remembers the routing." > > Ross Boylan > > P.S. I'd appreciate cc's because list mail goes into a queue at the moment--hence my interest in rerouting it.
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