Re: [EXIM] Smart Host Timeout Problems

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Lee McLoughlin
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Smart Host Timeout Problems
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Lee McLoughlin wrote:

> So mail was left in the queues on the dumb hosts. But after only 10
> minutes of waiting the dumb machines reject the mail with:
>
> ---
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients.
> The
> following address(es) failed:
>
>   cah1@???:
>     retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period
> ---

>
>
> The retry timers shouldn't have rejected the message for days.


Did you preserve the hints databases (/var/spool/exim/db/retry* ?
(Maybe there's an old dumped copy if the current one has got changed?)

Use exim_dumpdb to see what it had got in there.

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Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
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