Re: [Exim] ETRN Blues

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Author: Oliver Cook
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To: Gyan Mathur
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] ETRN Blues
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 03:21:49PM +0100, Gyan Mathur wrote:
> In response to Oliver Cook:
>
> > |Once a message is selected, all its addresses are processed. For
> > |the first selected message, Exim always overrides any retry
> > |information and forces a delivery attempt for each undelivered
> > |address.
>
> > What is special about delivering the first message, and not any
> > subsequent ones if their retry times have not been reached?
>
> Once one message is delivered successfully it resets the retry time
> for that host.
>
> Gyan.


Oh yes I'd failed to consider that! :) Makes perfect sense. Maybe it's
worth being a little more verbose in the spec to include this little
golden nugget?

Ollie

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