Re: [Exim] BSMTP forcing delivery

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Oliver Cook wrote:

> There must (I hope!) be a way to force delivery of a message via BSMTP and have it ignore any cached retry times, but I'll be damned if I can find it. Any
> ideas?
>
> The command that's in use at the moment is exim -bS -oMr etrn_requeue (aka
> C037).
>
> What is happening is that mail is being reinjected into the queue, but being
> hit by the cached retry times.
>
> 2001-03-22 19:25:51 ETRN le-software-man.com received from le-software-man.claranet.co.uk (Le-Software-Man.Le-Software-Man.com) [195.8.74.221]
> 2001-03-22 19:25:51 14gAiV-000736-00 <= <> U=claranet P=etrn_requeue S=3113 id=FLEMLFAOAEPIMIFAMPBEMENNCAAA.ibbs@???
> 2001-03-22 19:25:51 14gAiV-000736-00 == ATW_E-Mails@??? T=remote_smtp defer (-44): retry time not reached for any host
>
> I'd rather not do an exim -R and churn through the whole queue each time an
> ETRN is issued; which is what I was trying to get away from in implementing the
> BSMTP recipe! :)

Er, 'exim -R le-software-man.com' will only churn through messages that
have a recipient in that domain, rather than the whole queue..

You could also look into adding a command to remove all retry
information for 'le-software-man.com' before re-injecting the message
from the etrn_script..



>
> Thanks,
> Ollie
>
>

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