One of our campuses experience a power failure for about 2½ hours. I
would expect exim to keep the emails in the queue in accordance with
these retry rules:
# If DNS lookups timeout, drop the mail after trying for a hour.
* timeout F,1h,12m;
# Local machines are retried more regularly (i.e. 1 min).
*.sun.ac.za * F,12h,1m; G,24h,10m,1.5; F,3d,3h
# Everybody else starts with a 12 min retry interval.
* * F,2h,12m; G,16h,2h,1.5; F,2d,4h
~
But this happens to email sent to be delivered there:
2004-08-04 15:15:42 1BsLcM-0002Sx-7l <= jhspies@???
H=cpt-mail.adept.co.za [196.44.39.5] P=esmtp S=1177
id=20040804131538.5B0D0884066@???
2004-08-04 15:15:42 1BsLcM-0002Sx-7l ** ralf@???
<ralf@???>
R=relayrouter T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached for any host after
a long failure period
2004-08-04 15:15:42 1BsLcM-0002Sx-7l Completed
2004-08-04 15:15:42 1BsLcM-0002TO-TL <= <> R=1BsLcM-0002Sx-7l
U=Debian-exim P=local S=2077
2004-08-04 15:15:48 1BsLcM-0002TO-TL => jhspies@???
R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=mail.adept.co.za [196.44.32.21]
2004-08-04 15:15:48 1BsLcM-0002TO-TL Completed
I am using exim 4.34.
How can I prevent this?
Regards
Johann
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Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036
Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch
"And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also;
knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And
patience, experience; and experience, hope."
Romans 5:3,4
