Re: [EXIM] retry issues (1.92 and 2.01)

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Author: Alan Thew
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: Exim List
Subject: Re: [EXIM] retry issues (1.92 and 2.01)
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:

>On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Alan Thew wrote:
>
>> I have a periodically connected machine (fixed IP, ISDN) that one of our
>> exim machines delivers to, the retry rule I have is
>>
>> machine.liv.ac.uk  *           F,20d,1d

>>
>> and exim is started with -q1h
>>
>> Recently this machine was down for over 2 weeks and mail was timed out
>> after about 10 days, what have I done wrong here or is this a bug?
>
>Presumably that retry rule comes early enough in your rules to prevent
>any other rule from matching? Do you have any rules with a time limit of
>10 days?


I have the default which comes before, so that might be a problem. I
will re-order.
>
>If it is a bug, it is going to be difficult to track down!
>

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