I was poking around in my Exim 4.10 server's '/usr/spool/exim/input'
directory, and I found some outgoing mail which apparently had never
been delivered!
The mainlog listed the relevant failure messages: one was a 'connection
refused' from the destination host, and the other was a 'host lookup
did not complete' which means the destination's MX records are messed
up. These errors make sense... but why wasn't I told about them? Why
didn't exim deliver a bounce message or some other sort of error
notification to me?
In the future, will I have to check the 'input' directory periodically
by hand for undelivered messages, or is there a better way to handle
them?
____ |\/| Brian Kendig Set your priorities right.
\ /\ / ..__. brian at enchanter net No one ever said on his
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\__ __ \_ Be insatiably curious. only spent more time at
\____\___\ Ask "why" a lot. the office."
