On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:00:32AM +0100, Petr Novotny wrote:
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> On 17 Mar 00, at 8:50, Chris Green wrote:
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> > I get the occasional deferral like the following:-
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> > Mar 16 11:24:36 server qmail: 953205876.814716 delivery 4: deferral:
> > Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_by_that_name._(#4.1.2)/
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> That means that the domain in question probably exists, but its
> nameservers are unavailable at the moment.
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> > Is there any way to speed up the bouncing of deferrals like this as
> > it's a bit of a pain for users to have to wait for several days before
> > they find out that they've mis-typed an address (or, as in this case,
> > someone has their return address set up wrong).
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> You don't want to do that; otherwise, you end up bouncing mail for
> aol.com in case aol.com's nameservers are unavailable (like if your
> own link goes down).
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> If the user misspelled the domain name to some non-existent one,
> you'd get permanent error from DNS, and bounce immediately.
>
Well this doesn't seem to agree with what I'm seeing, the incorrectly
addressed mail was sent to <someone>@enterprises.net, whereas it
should have been sent to <someone>@enterprise.net and I was
definitely getting the deferral message. If you do an nslookup on
enterprises.net it reurns "Non-existent host/domain".
What basis does qmail use to decide that a domain 'probably' exists?
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