On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Ian Southam wrote:
> Our support staff send me mails to "unfreeze a domain". What they mean by
> this is, to go into the retry database and delete a host out of there,
> invariably, a customer who has been down for more than 5 days and, depite
> being back up, finds all of their mail is still bouncing.
Of course, it would stop bouncing when Exim got round to trying it
again. You can make this more automatic, at the cost of more frequent
attempts, by a retry rule like this:
* * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,5d,8h; F5d1h,1h
Once something has been dead for 5 days, until 5 days + 1 hour have
passed, it will try every hour (which probably means it won't try in
that interval). Thereafter it will start bouncing, but it will try if an
hour has passed since it last tried, instead of 8 hours.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
