Johann Spies wrote:
> 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;
If the campus had a power failure it probably affected the DNS servers too.
After the first hour any new mail to the campus would be dropped.
>
> # 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
Was this during the outage? If so, this looks normal. If it's still happening,
try deleting the retry database.
HTH,
John
>
> 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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> knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And
> patience, experience; and experience, hope."
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