On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Stephen Reeves wrote:
> I have come across a situation where exim tried to deliver to a host that
> had a load avg above the threshold set which is "deliver_load_max = 28".
I don't understand. Do you mean "from a host" rather than "to a host"?
That option shouldn't affect message reception.
> The second attempt to deliver that message didn't take place until 7 hours
> later. The retry rule is this:
>
> F,5h,15m; F,16h,2h; F,5d,8h
>
>
> I don't understand the delay. This says to try every 15 min for 5 hours.
For host errors it says try the *host* every 15 minutes for 5 hours. If
the host was tried in an earlier message, it won't try your message
until the host's retry time arrives. See section 42.2 of the 3.00 manual
for a discussion of all this.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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