On 17 Jul 1999, Vladimir Litovka wrote:
> When an oldest message in the queue got 12h old, Exim writes 'retry
> timeout exceed' and removes *all* messages in the queue to this host -
> even recent messages... How I can avoid this behaviour? I need only
> messages, exceed retry time, removed from queue, not all. Is it possible?
Check out delay_after_cutoff in the smtp transport. It doesn't do all
you want, but it will help.
However, Exim's basic philosophy is that if a host has been down for a
very long time, there is no point keeping messages hanging around.
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