On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 05:27:52PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> A mail server in our vicinity could, for some time, not be reached
> because of a routing problem on their side. Now that problem is
> solved and I can make a successful smtp connection through telnet.
> However, our mailserver (from where I made the smtp/telnet connection)
> can not send mail there:
> 2003-07-24 17:10:40 19fhjq-0001IM-00 <= jspies@???
> H=bywoner.sun.ac.za (bywoner) [146.232.129.121] P=esmtp S=1036
> id=20030724151036.GG23550@??? T="Toets van maties af" from
> <jspies@???> for iberko@???
> 2003-07-24 17:10:42 19fhjq-0001IM-00 ** iberko@???
> F=<jspies@???> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached
> for any host after a long failure period
> 2003-07-24 17:10:42 19fhjq-0001IM-00 Completed
> 2003-07-24 17:10:42 19fhjq-0001IM-00 Completed
>
> 2003-07-24 17:10:42 19fhju-0001Ld-00 <= <> R=19fhjq-0001IM-00 U=exim
> P=local S=1846 T="Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender"
> from <> for jspies@???
[...]
> What can cause this?
Exim stores information about failed deliveries in its hint databases
(specification: "Exim utilities" - "Hints database maintenance")
> And how do I correct it?
You can expire it, using something like this
exim_tidydb -t 10m /var/spool/exim retry
exim_tidydb -t 10m /var/spool/exim wait-remote_smtp
cu andreas
