On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Roger Books wrote:
> I am having them remove the extra MX records as if it refuses their
> mail it is rather pointless, however, I would really like to know how
> you can force exim to drop back to the preferred mail exchanger.
(a) Wait a while till its next retry time comes. You can find this by
exinext <name of domain or name of mail exchanger>
(b) Force a delivery to that domain, because forcing doesn't respect
retry times. For example
exim -odq address@???
to put a message on the queue without delivering it, then
exim -M <id of that message>
to force a delivery. If it succeeds, the retry delay information will be
removed.
(c) Fight with the messy interface to exim_fixdb and remove the retry
information for the host in question.
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Dave C. wrote:
> Try removing all the files in the "db" subdirectory under the exim
> spool directory.
(d) Yup, that's the sledgehammer :-) A slightly smaller one is to
remove only the "retry" files.
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