RE: [Exim] Exim using secondary mx despite primary being ava…

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Author: Philip Ross
Date:  
To: 'Sheldon Hearn', Philip Ross
CC: 'exim-users@exim.org'
Subject: RE: [Exim] Exim using secondary mx despite primary being availabl e
-----Original Message-----
From: Sheldon Hearn [mailto:sheldonh@starjuice.net]
Sent: 19 October 2001 13:32
To: Philip Ross
Cc: 'exim-users@???'
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim using secondary mx despite primary being
available

> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:27:04 +0100, Philip Ross wrote:
>
> > exinext doesn't give me any information because all the mail got
> > successfully delivered. The problem isn't that messages are failing to

be
> > delivered, just that after the failure of the primary mx, all new

messages
> > being received were being sent straight to the secondary mx without

trying
> > the primary first.
>
> Yes, I understand. I was suggesting that the primary MX was down for a
> sufficient period of time to ensure that the retry hints would prevent
> its use for a while.


Is there any way to configure how long the period of time exim will hold off
from using a particular mx?

Phil