On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Dennis Skinner wrote:
> Right, but if exim fails to send to a server, it won't try to send new
> messages to that server until the retry time has passed, right?
Correct.
> While on average, failed messages get looked at 7.5 messages after
> failing, new messages should only be queued for 5 mins now instead of
> 15, yes?
If by "new messages are queued" you mean "new messages are not
immediately delivered", then yes. When a new message arrives 5 minutes
after the server last failed, its retry will be past, so delivery will
take place - and indeed, the success of that delivery may pick up other
messages on the queue to pass down the same connection.
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