Re: [Exim] Retry not working as i thought?

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Jan Johansson
CC: 'Exim-users'
Subject: Re: [Exim] Retry not working as i thought?
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Jan Johansson wrote:

> (Exim 4.12)
>
> I thought the below should fail all quota errors immediately, but keep
> trying for 4 days for all other messages?


No. It will try for 4 days for all other _errors_ which is not quite the
same thing. Exim error handling is not per-message (for most errors;
there are a few exceptions - see the manual for details).

> But it seems to be failing
> _all_ errors immediately?
>
> Here is an example
> 2003-02-14 16:25:01 18jhi0-00085T-00 <= dans-owner@???
> U=sympa P=local S=3162
> id=4E4C7D1B13A5C840B0BF2A9B80FEC182038AE792@???
> 2003-02-14 16:25:11 18jhi0-00085T-00 == janne@???
> R=dnslookup defer (-1): host lookup did not complete
> 2003-02-14 16:25:13 18jhi0-00085T-00 ** janne@???:
> retry timeout exceeded

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What that means is that more than 4 days have passed since it first
failed to deliver to janne@???.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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