Re: [EXIM] retry-database and tempfailures

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Author: Tom
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To: Hans Morten Kind
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] retry-database and tempfailures

On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Hans Morten Kind wrote:

> It is summer and people are leaving their mailservers unattended, disks
> get filled up. To efficiently handle some lists, I am running exim with
> '-q1m' and this setup
> queue_smtp
> queue_run_max = 8
> remote_max_parallel = 20
> I am running exim-2.01 on Solaris-2.5.1/Ultra.
>
> Half my mainlog consisted of errors like
> SMTP error [...] after MAIL FROM: [...] 421 Disk full
> exim tried delivery every minute to these hosts. Is there any reason why
> exim is not using the retry-database in such cases? The disk-full


Depends on what your retry rules say. If your retry rules for that
domain say to retry once a minute, then it will.

Tom


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