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Re: temporary errors for DNS

From: Keld Jørn Simonsen (kelddkuug.dk)
Date: Wed Jul 15 2009 - 01:46:55 CDT


On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:57:27PM -0400, John Peach wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:49:13 -0600
> LuKreme <kremelskreme.com> wrote:
>
> > On 13-Jul-2009, at 16:24, Keld J__rn Simonsen wrote:
> > > Is there a way to disambiguate between DNS timeouts and DNS errors,
> > > and discard the latter?
> >
> >
> > Why the devil would you want to discard mail based on a DNS error?
> > DNS errors have a habit of being quite transient.
>
> The OP seems determined to shoot himself in the head, never mind the
> foot.

Well, a DNS NXDOMAIN error seems a good reason for discarding mail.
I am not so sure about the SERVFAIL error, so I would leave that for
now.

Thanks to everybody that helped soved my problems here.

Best regards
Keld