I've noticed odd behaviour with exim 2.12 running on Solaris 2.5.1. The
exim box is the primary MX for the domain "cspken.com":
cspken.com mail is handled (pri=100) by uucp.africaonline.com
cspken.com mail is handled (pri=50) by mail.africaonline.co.ke
cspken.com mail is handled (pri=10) by users.africaonline.co.ke
After receiving a message, the exim box uses a domain-list router to pass
the email to the downstream host. The retry rules are set to bounce the
message after 7 days (for all domains). However, on the odd occasion, exim
will receive a message, and then bounce it immediately, saying "the retry
timeout was exceeded". I've attached such a message below. Has anyone
experienced this before. The retry database created by exim consists of 2
files, with extensions .dir and .pag.
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Anand
System Administrator
Africa Online Ltd
http://www.anand.org
Hi
This a newly registered domain which had been setup for SMTP mail.
Thanks
John
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The
following address(es) failed:
administrator@???:
Connection timed out:
retry timeout exceeded
------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
Return-path: <jkamau@???>
Received: from [199.103.176.4] (helo=users)
by users.africaonline.co.ke with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1)
id 10FtJ2-0000lH-00
for administrator@???; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:25:52 +0300
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:25:52 +0300 (GMT)
From: John Njuguna Kamau <jkamau@???>
X-Sender: jkamau@users
To: administrator@???
Subject: Test
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.990225082512.2665A-100000@users>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
This is a test message please confirm receipt.
Thanks
John Njuguna Kamau
Network Engineer
Tel 011-228391/2
Fax 011-228310
Email: jkamau@???
http://www.africaonline.co.ke
