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Re: No A, no MX... but still retrying.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:24:32AM +0000, Alexey Lobanov wrote:
> But THIS case (no A, no MX) seems to be more definite. If we have no
> any DNS reply at all - yes, we have to retry. But as soon as we have
> NO_DATA reply, we may stop immediately. The address is definitely
> wrong.
Unfortunately we get NO_DATA for wrong reasons too, that is why
the current code behaves like it does.
The code, by the way, reads:
#if 0
if (r != EX_TEMPFAIL)
r = EX_NOHOST; /* Can do instant reject */
#else
r = EX_TEMPFAIL;
#endif
This is around line 2110 at CVS version of smtp.c
It all culminates at how getaddrinfo() misbehaves.
("badly" - I am afraid :-/ )
And for that matter, I have thought about doing delayed reports,
but I won't put my finger at them yet.. Meanwhile, have a peek
at ongoing LaTeX -> DOCBOOK-SGML transformation work at:
http://www.zmailer.org/zman/zmanual.html
http://www.zmailer.org/zman/zmanual.ps
> Regards,
> Alexey
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/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>