Re: [EXIM] -R does not refresh retry database

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Autor: Alan Thew
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A: Philip Hazel
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Assumpte: Re: [EXIM] -R does not refresh retry database
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:

>On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Alan Thew wrote:
>
>> I hope that this is not a RT*M but If I do a -R to force delivery of
>> messages to a host and they are delivered (i.e. the host is up), should
>> the retry database not be updated? (I know that -R != normal retry but
>> for disconnected hosts, this is a pain).
>
>Indeed it should. I have just done a test, and it did.
>
>> This is 1.891
>
>My test was on 1.90, but there wasn't any change in that area.
>
>(Note that, if the message could have gone to two different hosts (i.e.
>2 MX records) only the one to which it was actually sent will get
>removed from the retry database.)
>
>

The A record can vary since the final host is a dialup machine.

Thanks.

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