On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Greg Ward wrote:
> I have noticed similar behaviour. I dismissed it at the time, under the
> impression that retry rules apply to whole *domains* rather than
> individual *messages*. Eg. if there are 50 messages waiting to go to
> example.com, Exim won't retry every single message every 15 min (or
> whatever), but rather some random message for that domain will be tried
> every 15 min. Philip, is that reasoning correct?
Yes, that is absolutely correct.
> Oh wait: if the remote host was only down for five minutes, this doesn't
> work. It explains why each message isn't retried every 15 min if the
> remote host is down for the whole time, but it doesn't explain why
> messages for example.com will stay on the queue after example.com comes
> back up.
Indeed it doesn't.
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