Re: [Exim] Where does mail go to die^H^H^H^H bounce?

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:

> I'm a little confused: I understand that mail that's undeliverable will sit
> frozen in the queue, attempting to deliver... but isn't there some timeout or

if it's frozen, a delivery attempt will NOT occur (hence "frozen").

you can force a delivery attempt, watch the logs, check out what the
problem is, fix it, then force a delivery attempt again, which (given
that you fixed what you were supposed to fix) will succeed.

> something that I can tweak, past which the e-mail will be bounced back to
> sender? How does that work?

check out the retry rules

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