Re: retry rules and failed pipe transports

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Tom
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: retry rules and failed pipe transports
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Tom wrote:

>
> While there are a few different kinds of errors that can be matched by
> retry rules only two, "quota" and "quota_<time>" apply to local delivery,
> and then only for the appendfile transport.


Well, strictly, the catch-all "other" also applies to local delivery.

> How about pipe transports? I have a pipe transport that sometimes will
> exit with EX_TEMPFAIL to signal an over quota condition (it uses its own
> quota mechanism). I pipe all local deliveries into this transport, and I
> would like to set a different limit on retries: 4 days for remote
> deliveries, and 1 day for local deliveries.
>
> Is there any way to match any local domain within a retry rule? That
> would solve my problem.


Since you pipe *all* local deliveries to the same transport, then you
should be able just to specify a retry rule of the form

*@your.domain    *    F,1h,15m;G,24h,2h,1.5;


or whatever.

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Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
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