Ok. I've got a question. On one of the servers I'm administrating, the mail
system has SEVERAL messages over two weeks old that are undeliverable, but
have not expired or frozen, despite my settings. Observe:
20d 49K 15ovQR-00071Z-00 <(address removed)>
ray.warner@???
18d 3.0K 15pWYK-0000Ts-00 <(address removed)>
islandhome@???
17d 3.6K 15px93-0001pL-00 <(address removed)>
islandhome@???
17, 18, and 20 days? Come on! Here's my retry config:
* * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,8h
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but that translates to:
Try every 15 mins till message is 2 hours old, then
Then Try an hour, and then gain 1.5 hours till the message is 16 hours old,
then
try the message evry 8 hours till it's 4 days old.
Correct?
I also have the following options set:
ignore_errmsg_errors_after = 2d
timeout_frozen_after = 7d
The mailq routnie (exim -bp) lists these as active messages, not frozen,
despite the problems reaching the mail servers they belong to. I read the
logs, and it's getting DNS timeouts looking up the MX addresses for those
sites. Observe:
2001-10-23 11:20:11 15ovQR-00071Z-00 == ray.warner@???
R=lookuphost defer (-1): host lookup did not complete
2001-10-23 11:20:11 15ovQR-00071Z-00 failed to open DB file
/var/spool/exim/db/retry: File exists
