Re: [Exim] warnmsg - doen't describe reason of errors

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: jackalek
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] warnmsg - doen't describe reason of errors
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, jackalek wrote:

> in http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20001211/022955.html
> you wrote that in warn message should be included the reason of
> delay message. But my exim 3.35 does not include this information in
> warning messages.


I was probably under a misapprehension (OK, I was *wrong* :-) when I wrote
that. The issue is complicated:

The problem is that often, a warning message is issued when there hasn't
actually been a delivery attempt. Exim looks at a message during a queue
run, but discovers that the retry time for delivery hasn't arrived. So
it doesn't try to deliver. However, it then notices that the time for
sending a warning HAS arrived. So it sends the warning, but because it
hasn't actually tried a delivery, it doesn't know what the reason for
the delay is.


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