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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

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