public inbox for [email protected]  

help / color / mirror / Atom feed

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <[email protected]>
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: what is up with the PG mailing lists?
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:47:30 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<20071101080959.49f3087b@scratch>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<20071101092806.3b1fa452@scratch>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Thursday, November 01, 2007 13:36:32 -0400 Andrew Sullivan 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> "Host or domain name not found"
>> This should just bounce, no?
> 
> The full message looks like:
> 
> Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=sigma.fr type=MX: 
> Host not found, try again
> 
> so it looks like postfix is treating it as a soft failure, vs hard ...

a query for the MX of that domain results in SERVFAIL which MTAs usually
treat like a temporary and not a permanent error one.


Stefan

view thread (59+ messages)  latest in thread

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
  Subject: Re: what is up with the PG mailing lists?
  In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox