I'm attempting to determine the long wait for retries on certain messages.
My low volume host serves as a secondary MX for a friend's domains, where
undeliverable items remain in the queue waiting for the remote system to be
online. Logs for one such message are listed below.
I have read the manual and ask your indulgence. The host here is a debian
box using exim 3.22, and local deliveries seem to be working well.
Automatic queue runs occur every 30 minutes.
If I understand retries correctly, delivery of this message (there were
approximately 12 that over the 36 hours in question arrived in the queue
and were ultimately delivered) should have occurred every 15 minutes for
the first two hours, then at increasing intervals for the next 16 hours,
and finaly each 8 hours for 4 days. My reading of the log shows that it was
tried initially, then approximately 3 hours later when another message came
in for the same domain, which occurred again 4 minutes later. A new message
was received at 18:54, while the remote domain's host was still down. No
further delivery attempts seem to have been made for the next 23 hours. I
can't determine why not. The messages were finally delivered by forcing a
queue run (exim -q) at the console.
If you can shed some light on this, I would be very grateful.
(exim.conf)
...
######################################################################
# RETRY CONFIGURATION #
######################################################################
# Domain Error Retries
# ------ ----- -------
otherdomain.com * F,5d,24h
* * F,2h,15m; G,16h,2h,1.5; F,4d,8h
end
(logs)
# zgrep 14gViT /var/log/exim/mainlog.1.gz
2001-03-23 09:51:14 14gViT-0002Uw-00 <= someone@???
H=(opal.whatever4.org) [aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd] P=esmtp S=2743
id="wQUNc.0.Km4.ahukw"@???
2001-03-23 09:51:15 14gViT-0002Uw-00 mail.domain.net [
www.xxx.yyy.zzz]: No
route to host
2001-03-23 09:51:15 14gViT-0002Uw-00 == gn@??? T=remote_smtp defer
(113): No route to host
2001-03-23 12:44:49 14gViT-0002Uw-00 == gn@??? T=remote_smtp defer
(-44): retry time not reached
for any host
2001-03-23 12:48:44 14gViT-0002Uw-00 == gn@??? T=remote_smtp defer
(-44): retry time not reached
for any host
...
2001-03-23 18:54:37 14ge7U-0002l7-00 mail.sourpuss.net [216.241.187.216]:
Connection timed out
...
# grep 14gViT /var/log/exim/mainlog.0
2001-03-24 17:36:01 14gViT-0002Uw-00 => gn@??? R=lookuphost
T=remote_smtp H=mail.domain.net [2
16.241.187.216]*
2001-03-24 17:36:01 14gViT-0002Uw-00 Completed
Thanks,
-- jeff --
Jeffrey B. Green Personal Computer Consultant - Las Vegas, Nevada
http://jbgreen.com Networking Las Vegas Since 1986
