On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, T. William Wells wrote:
> : 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
You can also find out what the problem was by running the exinext
utility on the given domain, e.g.
exinext wsnet.com
Oh, hang on. It's a directing defer. This means that what failed was the
directing of the address, rather than an actual delivery. So it must be
a local address. Therefore you need either
exinext scottn@???
or even just
exinext scottn
if wsnet.com is your qualify_domain.
This will tell you what the problem was, when it happened, and when Exim
is next prepared to try to deliver. (For a remote domain you get the
information for each host that could accept mail for the domain.)
> 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....
Yes, it should match against the entire recipient address. If you have a
case where it doesn't, please let me know the details.
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