I find that this keeps those pesky messages from sitting in the queue
forever. If their server cant accept mail, return it to sender and let
them worry about it. They should tell their correspondents to get real
email accounts.
######################################################################
# RETRY CONFIGURATION #
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# Domain Error Retries
# ------ ----- -------
*.aol.com * F,30m,3m; F,2h,7m
aol.com * F,30m,3m; F,2h,7m
*.juno.com * F,30m,3m; F,2h,7m
juno.com * F,30m,3m; F,2h,7m
*.bigfoot.com * F,30m,3m; F,2h,7m
bigfoot.com * F,30m,3m; F,2h,7m
*.hotmail.com * F,30m,3m; F,2h,7m
hotmail.com * F,30m,3m; F,2h,7m
* * F,2h,7m; G,16h,56m,1.5; F,2d,233m
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998 john.henders@??? wrote:
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 14:00:46 -0800
> From: john.henders@???
> To: exim-users@???
> Subject: [EXIM] smtp routing an queue delivery
>
>
> Anyone noticed hotmail.com is really slow lately? I've got a ton of mail
> in the queue for users there and seem to be having a hard time
> delivering it. I tried manually telnetting to their smtp port and their
> server is very slow to respond. If I try to force a queue run with
> exim -v -R hotmail.com, exim makes a new connection for every email, and
> after about 4 or 5 get's a connection reset by peer and marks all the
> others for later delivery.
>
> What I'm wondering is if there is a way to force exim to deliver all
> these messages down the same session. Even if I had to do a seperate run
> to allow exim to build smtp routing for the messages, that would still
> be preferable to the current situation.
>
> Another question. If exim has put these messages in the queue when the
> load on my server was too high, will it not calculate smtp routing when
> doing a queue run?
>
>
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