On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Johann Spies wrote:
> With the following retry rules (exim 4.10), why do I still get mail
> lying for longer than 3 days on my queue?
>
> ---------------------
> # Local machines are retried more regularly (i.e. 1 min).
>
> *.sun.ac.za * F,12h,1m; G,24h,10m,1.5; F,3d,30h
Oh, and also, 3d+30h = over 4 days. (But actually, Exim limits retry
times to a maximum of 24h by default.)
Suppose it tries a message at 2d23h59m and fails. It hasn't hit 3d yet,
so it defers. The next time to try is "now+30h" (actually now+24h), so
the message remains until nearly 4d.
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