On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Dean Brooks wrote:
> I'm curious about change #21 in Exim 4.31 regarding fallback_hosts and
> ultimate retry timeouts:
>
> 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed
> their expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address
> was bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go
> on to try the fallback hosts.
>
> My understanding is that fallback_hosts is a transport option, even though
> it can be specified on a router to pass on to the transport.
Correct.
> Does this change also affect long retry failures on DNS lookup
> failures at the routing level?
No.
> Or does the change only affect long retry failures at the transport
> level?
Yes.
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