Re: [Exim] Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender…

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Author: Dave C.
Date:  
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender (fwd)
On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> Alexey Promokhov rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> > A message was written about one hour ago. I'm just connected to ISP and
> > tried to send it. But modem connection was unstable due to poor line
> > quality. And the message has been bounced. But why? This error is really
> > temporary, not permanent.
>
> You composed the message when offline and exim keeps trying to resend it,
> fails. It's just telling you that the mail is stuck in your queue four hours
> after you sent it.
>
> > I'm using the default retry configuration.
>
> You might want to increase the queue interval of exim
>


And extend the retry time to be longer than you reasonable expect to
remain not connected for. (If you connect at least once a day, I would
set it to 2 day.)..

Also, you might want to consider some sort of mechanism to force an exim
queue run (with -qff) when you do connect.

>     -s

>


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