Re: [Exim] Message frozen

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Andrew
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Message frozen
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Andrew wrote:

> 2000-09-07 10:21:54 13Wpsv-0004QQ-00 == user@??? R=to_domain
> defer (-1): lookup of host "gateway.this.domain.com" failed in to_domain
> router


You configured a domainlist router to send the message to
gateway.this.domain.com. When it tried to look up the IP address for
that domain, the lookup failed with a permanent error. As this is a
manual routing, this is a considered to be a serious error which the
postmaster needs to know about (maybe you have a typo in your file), and
there is little point in keeping on trying. So it freezes the message.

> Any suggestions to stop this these sort of errors from being frozen would
> be muchly appreciated.


1. Don't set up routes to non-existent hosts.

2. If you must set up routes to non-existent hosts, and don't want
freezing, set the host_find_failed option on the router to do something
else.

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