At 09:32 22/01/97 +0000, you wrote:
>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.
OK. Does that mean that the retry rule I quoted applies to all such
deliveries? That is, after retrying till the cutoff period, all such
deliveries will get only one attempt.
>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.
In fact that's what I have done now. It would still be useful to know what
to expect afetr a prolonged downtime.
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