Re: [Exim] Retry rule?

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Szerző: Johann Spies
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Tárgy: Re: [Exim] Retry rule?
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 02:13:46PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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.


Thanks. I have corrected the 30h to 3h. Will see what the effect is
on the queue.

Regards.
Johann

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