On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> 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.
It didn't bounce it immediately - it tried to deliver, and got a
connection timeout. The host has been down for over 7 days, so it
bounced the message. Timeouts apply to hosts, not to messages. See
section 32.3 (Long-term failures).
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