On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Michael Haardt wrote:
> * * F,6h,15m; G,24h,1h,1.5; F,7d,6h
>
> Exim appears to keep some mails longer, though, if delivery fails in
> odd ways:
>
> == sales@??? R=outgoing T=t_outgoing defer (0): SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: host mail.baoshchina.com [221.136.64.179]: 850 System is busy. jDQnABBPUEDSHTKE.1(26)
>
> I see all kinds of odd codes, 850 being just one example, and it's always
> those mails which I end up removing manually. Do I need to change my
> retry rule or is this a bug?
Exim is treating a code that is not 2xx or 5xx as a temporary error.
However, it should be honouring the retry time. Have you got any debug
output for such messages? What does the retry data file contain for that
domain?
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