Re: [Exim] Forgetting delivery attempts....

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Adam Thornton
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Forgetting delivery attempts....
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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