From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: SMTP server error message Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 04:55:42 +0900 Message-ID: <87a99x67up.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <83mwdydqcs.fsf@gnu.org> <87oaye57kk.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83ha45ewx0.fsf@gnu.org> <87egz96cd8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83zjhxbxg8.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401566181 12395 80.91.229.3 (31 May 2014 19:56:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 19:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 31 21:56:13 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WqpO0-0001w6-Pz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 May 2014 21:56:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32774 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WqpO0-0000v8-Cr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 May 2014 15:56:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WqpNp-0000jj-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2014 15:56:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WqpNi-0001f9-6h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 May 2014 15:56:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:50022) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WqpNa-0001dI-4w; Sat, 31 May 2014 15:55:46 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5ADA970B24; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 04:55:42 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B40AE11F235; Sun, 1 Jun 2014 04:55:42 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <83zjhxbxg8.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:172231 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > I will try that as well. Are all 4XX codes indeed of this nature? Yes, all 4xx codes are an invitation to try again, they indicate a transient glitch with the server (server couldn't allocate memory, spamchecker crashed, that kind of thing). There's no way to know when the server expects the problem to get fixed, but for smtpmail I would guess that if it isn't fixed in a few seconds, you may as well give up, and try by hand later. Having smtpmail retry multiple times in the background over several hours is probably more programming than it's worth.