On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:28:59AM -0000, John Horne wrote:
> At this point it may have several hosts remaining which it can
> try. It makes a connection to the lowest preference host.
I like to say "most preferred" host, because the lowest preference
value is the highest preference, which is begging for confusion...
> Now, I would have thought that if the connection fails then it would
> try the next host, but that doesn't seem to happen.
Hm, that's odd. It does seem to happen for me- I sometimes see a whole
list of "connection refused" messages followed by a completed send to
a backup MX... e.g. here's someone trying to write to
someone@???:
10:46:36 127you-0000Dz-00 <= someone@...
10:46:36 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-1.mail.com [165.251.48.31]: Connection refused
10:46:36 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-1.mail.com [165.251.48.30]: Connection refused
10:46:37 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-1.mail.com [165.251.4.152]: Connection refused
10:46:37 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-1.mail.com [165.251.32.30]: Connection refused
10:46:37 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-1.mail.com [165.251.4.153]: Connection refused
10:46:37 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-2.mail.com [165.251.48.31]: Connection refused
10:46:37 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-2.mail.com [165.251.4.153]: Connection refused
10:46:37 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-2.mail.com [165.251.4.152]: Connection refused
10:46:37 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-2.mail.com [165.251.32.30]: Connection refused
10:46:37 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-2.mail.com [165.251.48.30]: Connection refused
10:46:37 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-3.mail.com [165.251.4.153]: Connection refused
10:46:37 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-3.mail.com [165.251.48.31]: Connection refused
10:46:37 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-3.mail.com [165.251.4.152]: Connection refused
10:46:37 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-3.mail.com [165.251.32.30]: Connection refused
10:46:38 127you-0000Dz-00 mail-intake-3.mail.com [165.251.48.30]: Connection refused
10:46:38 127you-0000Dz-00 == ... T=remote_smtp defer (111): Connection refused
> Instead the message is deferred with the message log (and main log)
> showing, for example, connection refused. Shouldn't exim try the
> next host in the MX list at this point? I could find little about
> this in the manual.
Hm, looks like retries on that message are much more cautious about
attempting to deliver the message.
SRH
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Steve Haslam, Production Engineer, Excite UK steve.haslam@???
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