On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, John W Baxter wrote:
> At 13:38 +0100 10/19/2001, Philip Ross wrote:
> >Is there any way to configure how long the period of time exim will hold off
> >from using a particular mx?
>
> It's not really predictable that the same MX will do the same thing again,
> so it's hard to sharpshoot before the fact.
>
> See 53.7 in the spec for exim_fixdb. Or use the blunderbuss approach:
> toss out all the files in the db directory in the spool directory. Exim
> will do a little extra work for a while.
Am I missing something here? My answer to the original question would be
"read about retry rules". If you set, for example,
some.host.name * * F,100d,1m
Exim will only hold off for 1 minute for that host, and won't time out
till 100 days (for domains routed to that host).
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