On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Marc Haber wrote:
> I successfully deliver the last e-mail to mx.otherprovider on
> 2002-07-27 at 15:56. Then, the MX settings change to:
> |[14/514]haber@anne:~$ mx example.com
> |example.com MX 10 mx.example.com.
> |example.com MX 100 my.host
>
> but mx.example.com is not yet online.
>
> on 2002-07-29 04:30, my host starts bouncing e-mail for example.com
> "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
What is the output from "exinext mx.example.com"? Do the log entries
that mention that host give you any details as to when it first failed?
> Can anybody please explain that error message?
It means all hosts for that domain have been down longer than their
maximum retry times.
> The minimum queue time
> is configured to be 48 hours, and my exim starts bouncing about 36
> hours after last successful delivery - even if it was supposed to
> queue that particular e-mail for five days instead of default two.
Exim does not queue emails for 5 days[*]. It queues emails until a host has
been down for 5 days[*]. This is not the same thing.
See also Q0620 in the Exim 4 FAQ.
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[*] Or whatever particular limit you set.
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