On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in my mail queue a lot of messages older than 2 weeks are remaining. The
> mainlog says "message is frozen" to a lot of messages. In configure, two
> options are set:
>
> ignore_bounce_errors_after = 2d
> timeout_frozen_after = 7d
>
> I'm only using one retry rule (default):
>
> * * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,6h
>
> So in theory no message can remain longer than approx. 7 days in the
> queue, can it? But why are messages remaining longer?
Which Exim release? This potentially relevant bug was fixed in 4.31:
79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
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