Re: delivery error message

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Author: T. William Wells
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Re: delivery error message
In article <Pine.GSO.3.95.971014141434.6912C-100000@???>,
David Crabtree <wolfcub@???> wrote:
: Could someone please decifer this maillog message for me. Specifically why
: its not delivering the email. scottn@??? is a local user.
:
: 1997-10-14 14:13:34 3 args: /usr/exim/bin/exim -Mc 0xL9hc-00058g-00
: 1997-10-14 14:13:34 0xL9hc-00058g-00 == scottn@??? directing defer
: (-26): retry time not reached

Means pretty much what it says. Something in the past made the
message not deliver and exim is waiting until the next appropriate
time to retry the delivery.

You should check out the various -M options and the -R option of
exim for forcing deliveries. E.g.,

exim -R scottn@???

will force an attempt at delivery for each message that contains
that address (it'll force an attempt at delivery to *all*
addresses, though, not just the one on the command line).

BTW, someone correct me but I'm pretty sure that the -R option is
matched against entire recipient addresses. However, sometimes
exim seems to be behaving like it only matches the domain part.
E.g.,

exim -R @

ought to force a delivery for all addresses, right? I've seen it
not doing so, I think....

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