On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
> i have an exiscan instlled at a place, exiscanv2 with 3.35 or .36,
> thus exim is placed in queue_only mode. the retry rules are
>
> * * F,2h,15m; G,16h,2h,1.5; F,4d,8h
>
> i've just noticed one mail being in the queue for 7 days. it was
> undeliverable because the target host has been unreachable, and
> connection has been timing out. i did an "exim -qff -d" on it, and
> after the timeout has occured, the message was sent back to the sender
> with an appropriate error message.
I don't quite understand this. Why weren't the queue runners picking
this up?
> i suppose this is all normal. the question is how to get around the
> problem :), that is, if i don't look at it, the message just stays
> there indefinitely.
It isn't normal, assuming that you are running regular queue runners.
Oh, and also assuming the message wasn't frozen.
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