On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, John Jetmore wrote:
> I noticed an odd thing regarding a message being continually frozen and
> thawed. I can't see an obvious cause, though I'm sure it's there.
> looking in mainlog to see why it keeps getting thawed, I see this:
> 2003-03-21 19:07:46 18wWRl-0005VO-0s Unfrozen by errmsg timer. my config
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That message is output when a message is unfrozen by
ignore_bounce_errors_after, so presumagely you have that set. However,
if the message fails to deliver again, the error should be ignored.
> 2003-03-21 18:50:39 mailer-daemon@???
> <Mailer-Daemon@???> R=lookuphost defer (-1): remote
> host address is the local host*** Frozen
Ah. Because it's a routing error (rather than a delivery error), the
message isn't being discarded by ignore_bounce_errors_after.
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