Author: Sheldon Hearn Date: To: Suresh Ramasubramanian CC: Exim Users Subject: Re: [Exim] Query: exim rejects based on too many retries
On Tue, 03 Jul 2001 19:27:15 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> However, at this stage, the hassle is that whenever one of my users tries to
> send a mail to that domain, the mail is instantly bounced with "this message
> has remained in the queue for too long, no further retries ..".
>
> Anybody seen this behavior before in exim? I'm out of the office now, so
> I'll post log details / config snippets relevant to this when I get back
> tomorrow morning, if necessary.
Isn't this what delay_after_cutoff (described in "Long-term failures")
is for? I'm sure I've run into this myself, but can't remember exactly
what one does about it. :-)
See FAQ Q0524, though. Perhaps you could schedule some periodic
exim_fixdb magic?
