At 06:11 PM 11/7/2001 +0100, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Jeff Hodge wrote:
>
> > How can you tell if a retry rule is working? Are the retries logged
> > anywhere? I do not think exim is retrying to send to a remote smtp
that is
> > down. Do I also need to have a queue runner? I only start exim with
-bd
> > option. My retry rules are the default setting.
> >
> > * * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,8h
>
>exinext <domain> should give you some insight, also exim_dumpdb on the
>retry database can sched some light.
>
>--
Tamas,
Thanks for your reply. Here is the output of exinext and the db dump
exinext hilltoppress.com
Deliver: mail.hilltoppress.com [66.148.140.83] error 110: Connection timed
out
first failed: 07-Nov-2001 09:11:11
last tried: 07-Nov-2001 09:11:11
next try at: 07-Nov-2001 09:26:11
exim_dumpdb /var/spool/exim retry
T:mail.hilltoppress.com:66.148.140.83 110 77 Connection timed out
07-Nov-2001 09:11:11 07-Nov-2001 09:11:11 07-Nov-2001 09:26:11
It does not look like exim is trying to resend the message. There is
nothing in the log files to show that it tried to send the message again.
Is a queue runner responsible for the retries?
Thanks for your time.
