Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:27:07 +0000 From: Ceri <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [OT] Mail delivery [was: Re: Suggestions for handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL] Message-ID: <20020227082707.GA2105@rhadamanth> In-Reply-To: <20020226222521.GA1145@fonix.adamsfamily.xx> References: <1wzo1wufz5.o1w@localhost.localdomain> <20020226222521.GA1145@fonix.adamsfamily.xx>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:25:22PM +0100, Szilveszter Adam wrote: > > The mail server that will try to connect to hub.freebsd.org (which will > probably be your ISP's) must meet the following requirements: <requirements snipped> > Otherwise your message will be kept in limbo until the sending MTA > eventually gives up. (The error returned by hub is a Transient Failure, > although it already knows that it is not going to accept your message, > ever.) It has to be a transient failure, as network or server issues may cause hostname resolution to fail, and an MTA shouldn't return a permanent error when that happens. I'll shut up now. Ceri -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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