On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Al Fisher wrote:
> I want to always attempt a delivery from my inbound mail server to the
> server which holds my users mailboxes. The user server occasionally rejects
> mail because it's busy, causing the inbound server to clog as it waits to
> retry. I've tried defining a retry rule:
>
> [10.250.1.20] * F,15s,5m; G,4d,1h,1,5
>
> but this doesn't seem to work.
RTFM. The first field in a retry rule matches an email address, a domain
name, or a host *name*.
> How can I make the inbound server ALWAYS attempt a delivery to the user
> server?
Put the user server's name in the retry rule. Also, your first F rule
has the numbers the wrong way round. "Try every 5 minutes for 15
seconds" isn't very useful...
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