On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, I wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Alex Sharaz wrote:
>
> > Is there any way of configuring exim to retry the local delivery a number of
> > times prior to generating a DR report ?
>
> No, not even the lastest version (1.80).
>
> I am intending to revamp the lookup mechanisms, and one of the issues I
> have to tackle is the problems of lookups that can't be done instantly.
> This will require pervasive surgery all over Exim, I fear.
I remembered later that there *is* something that might help. Exim just
calls getpwnam() to look up a local user; it doesn't call NIS itself, so
my comment about lookups is not relevant. However, there is an option
called
finduser_retries
which, if set to a value greater than zero, causes Exim to retry
getpwnam() that many (additional) times, at 1-second intervals. You
could try setting
finduser_retries = 1
or a larger number; of course, this does mean additional work plus delay
in cases where the local part really doesn't exist.
Philip
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