On 3 Nov 2003, Adam Thornton wrote:
> My question, I guess, is, if it's in the queue, waiting for a retry,
> does Exim attempt another MX lookup on the RCPT hostname,
Yes. It always repeats the routing.
> or does it use its cached data?
It does not cache the data. When a delivery fails, what it remembers is
that the delivery failed, and that (therefore) it shouldn't retry that
host/IP/port again for a while. It remembers nothing about the routing
for a particular message.
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