[Exim] logging question...

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Author: Steve Foster
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] logging question...
Hi there,

i am getting the following in our logfiles for exim , when a mail is being
delivered completely, some log entries have an asterix tagged after the IP
of the receiving host e.g.

2002-05-22 04:56:19 17AHaI-0004uo-00 => steve@??? R=lookuphost
T=remote_smtp H=mail.duff.org [10.0.0.1]*

*NOTE* details changed to protect the innocent...

This seems to occur when a mail couldn't be delivered immediately and had
to be re-tried , or where and email has been sitting on the queue for a
while without attempting to deliver, normally because of load issues, and
thus when it is delivered correctly for the first time, must have exceeded
a time which would normally necessitate being retried...IYSWIM...

does this argument make sense?? and does the * symbolise this??

many thanks in advance

Steve
Steve Foster
Senior Systems Administrator
PSINet Europe
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