Re: [exim] Timeouts and retry rules

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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A: Dean Brooks
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Assumpte: Re: [exim] Timeouts and retry rules
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Dean Brooks wrote:

> Problem is, each individual message gets retried EVERY time a queue
> run goes over each message. It's as though no retry rule ever
> gets entered. I've appended the search for a particular message
> from our mainlog today.
>
> Shouldn't these retries adhere to the retry rules that are in place
> in Exim? It's as though it doesn't write out any retry times at all.


Yes, at first sight they should.

> 2004-09-02 06:25:26 1Bxu0L-000737-K6 == admin@??? R=mwdirect
> T=remote_smtp defer (145): Connection timed out: SMTP timeout while
> connected to 64.253.97.107 [64.253.97.107] after end of data (3341
> bytes written)


1. What is in your retry database for this host, if anything? (Search
with exinext.)

2. Try a delivery with debugging enabled; see if it says anything about
retry data.

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