On 24 Apr 2003, Andy Lear wrote:
> One of our clients has a dialup connection for his SMTP feed and he had
> trouble with the server a few weeks ago, now whenever his server is
> connected to the internet our exim servers can deliver to it, but when
> it is down the messages sent to it are bounced immediately.
That seems odd. When your Exim server delivers to it, the retry data
should be erased so that subsequent messages should be held again (for 4
days or whatever) before timing out.
> Is there any way of clearing the timeout information held against this
> domain by the exim servers?
Check out the exim_fixdb utility. It is crude in the extreme - I've
never got round to tidying it up.
Alternatively, just delete /var/spool/exim/db/retry*
This will remove all retry data for all hosts/domains, but will not do
any harm. Exim will just try everything right away and start building
new retry data in due course.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
