Re: [Exim] Connection timed out:  retry timeout exceeded

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Author: Andy Lear
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Many thanks Philip,

Just testing it now, with out the delay_after_cutoff removed from the
config, and then tried exim -Rff domain. So far no bounces.


Again many thanks
Andy

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 10:25, Philip Hazel wrote:

> On 24 Apr 2003, Andy Lear wrote:
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> > 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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Andy Lear <andy@???>
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