On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Max Caines wrote:
> Exim thinks that deliveries to the host 'wbs.wlv.ac.uk', which is a mail
> gateway here, are local. That is, testing goes like this:
>
> exim -bt
> > in1012@???
> in1012@???
> local delivery to in1012 in domain wbs.wlv.ac.uk
> router = wbs_and_scitsc, transport = emil
>
> Emil is an attachment format conversion package we use that can also do SMTP
> deliveries. I don't understand why Exim thinks this is a local delivery, as
> the host name doesn't match any of the names in 'local_domains' (my
> 'configure' file is below).
Ah. Terminology problem. "Local delivery" means "delivery via appendfile
or pipe"; "remote delivery" means "delivery via smtp". Because emil is a
pipe transport, the delivery is local as far as Exim is concerned - it
is not connecting to a remote machine in order to do the delivery.
> It was only when I deleted the retry database that it started doing multiple
> attempts to deliver to this gateway.
What you should probably do is to set up a special retry entry that
lasts for more than 4 days before going into the "expired" state. Then
Exim wouldn't start bouncing things.
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