Re: [Exim] Retry Rules and Mailing Lists

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Ephraim Silverberg wrote:
>
> > We want to have the option of having messages sent to mailing lists only
> > be attempted once for each address on the list and not retried or kept in
> > the queue (the list maintainer would get the error message with the list
> > of failed addresses).
> >
> > The natural way to try and do this is by "Retry Rules"; however, the retry
> > rules are designed to be triggered by individual recipient addresses and not
> > the mailing-list-burst sender address. Is there any way of altering the
> > retry rule behaviour to do what I want?
>
> I'm afraid not.
>
> Is it really sensible? Just because somebody's host happens to be down
> for a few minutes (every host has to reboot sometime), or is unreachable
> (every network connection goes down from time to time, sometimes for
> only a few seconds), you throw away mailing list mail destined for that
> host? Seems rather harsh to me.
>
> Keeping mailing list mail on the queue for a shorter than usual time, on
> the other hand, does seem a plausible thing to do. Unfortunately, Exim
> can't do that either. Retrying is based purely on destination, not on
> source.

You could run nothing _but_ the list on that host, and universally
shorten the max retry times..

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