Re: [Exim] Using send_to_gateway on messages already queued

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Ben Parker
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Using send_to_gateway on messages already queued
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Ben Parker wrote:

> Sorry - wrong terminology:
>
> The first section of my routers is something like this:
>
> send_to_gateway:
>    driver = domainlist
>    transport = remote_smtp 
>    route_list = "baddomain.com newrelay.org byname"

>
>
> So I have lots of mail for users@??? but they just keep tryinmg
> to go to the DNS-determined MX host. New messages for that doamin *do* go
> out on newrelay.org. The message log as reported by eximon shows lots of
> "retry time not reached for any host" but I have set the max interval
> retry to 6h and these msgs have been around for days. I'm sure it's
> obvious but please help anyway!


Did you HUP the daemon when you changed the configuration? I suspect not
if new messages work and old ones don't. However, that will only be the
case if you have not set up an Exim uid/gid; otherwise the queue runners
started by the daemon will be re-exec'd and so will re-read the
configuration.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.