After consulting Camel in Action I found that org.apache.camel.PollingConsumerPollStrategy is the answer to errorhandling before an Exchange is create in this case :)
The problem with multiple connections when login fails still stands though. -- View this message in context: http://camel.465427.n5.nabble.com/FTP-Try-login-once-and-disconnect-if-failure-tp1692660p1714922.html Sent from the Camel - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.