Re: [Exim] spool file locked for LONG times...

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: Ian
CC: roger shannon, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] spool file locked for LONG times...
exim@??? said:
> I have seen this exact behaviour just last weekend. An address on a
> mailing list was failing - not with DNS but, because the SMTP server
> in question was down. However the site in question had 6 SMTP servers
> and, exim would sit and try each server and fail, each time a message
> to the list was posted (tis a fairly busy list).


This should be caught by the retry rules surely unless you have very
short retry times since the first (few) messages would cause a block,
but then hint entries would be added to the retry db and prevent
further attempts until the retry time had passed.

    Nigel.
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