On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, John W Baxter wrote:
> Your answer implies that the retry hints are stored such that a change in
> the retry rules for a host takes place right away (the storage is of the
> most recent time tried, not the next time to try). That makes sense: it's
> more flexible than storing the next time to try the host. [Yes, I should
> and will look that the available documents and at the retry database
> itself.]
No, sorry, I seem to have succeeded in confusing you. Exim does indeed
store the next time to try. The retry rules won't apply till next time
that retry time is reached. [Less flexible, less computing required. But
to be honest, I just "did it that way".]
What I was trying to point out was that the retry rules are the way to
make Exim try a particular host frequently after it has gone down. But
you have to set them in advance!
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