On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Theo Honohan wrote:
> 1999-12-17 11:47:15 11yvq9-0000vE-00 == \
> spqr@??? <spqr@???> T=internal_delivery defer (-33): \
> failed to lookup IP address for zebra
>
> 1999-12-17 11:47:15 11yvq9-0000vE-00 ** \
> spqr@??? <spqr@???>: retry timeout exceeded
> The retry configuration is
>
> * * F,1h,15m; G,16h,2h,2; F,4d,12h
>
> This wasn't the behaviour I was expecting; Am I missing something obvious?
Exim retry rules apply *per host* not *per message*. If it thinks a host
has been dead for a long time, it will give up pretty quickly. It's all
explained in the manual. A problem with what might be called
"rarely-probed" hosts was addressed in the latest releases - retry
information that is more than a week old is ignored (see
retry_data_expire). Previously Exim would behave badly if a host was down,
then not tried again for, say, a month, and then happened to be down
again.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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