Re: [exim] retries

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Author: Ron McKeating
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To: Exim-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [exim] retries
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 09:38, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Ron McKeating wrote:
>
> >   1C0dBQ-00065g-Gd from: <owner-balloon@???> : 17 days.
> >                 balloonlist@???:  SMTP error from
> > remote mailer after RCPT TO

> >
> > A quick exim -bp confirms this to be the case, the above is just a
> > sample there are lots of jobs over 8 days old. Anybody give me a pointer
> > to what I am doing wrong
>
> Try a delivery with debugging turned on to see if the debug output gives
> any clue as to why it isn't removing the message.
>


OK did the following

[root@slowcoach root]# ~exim/bin/exim -v -M 1C2W1N-0004Wn-MP
delivering 1C2W1N-0004Wn-MP
Connecting to balloonflightsvic.com.au [69.93.158.147]:25 ... connected
  SMTP<< 220-SV15.DNSLISTS.NET ESMTP Exim 4.34 #1 Tue, 14 Sep 2004
04:19:29 -0500
         220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport
unsolicited,
         220 and/or bulk e-mail.

SMTP>> EHLO slowcoach.lut.ac.uk

  SMTP<< 250-SV15.DNSLISTS.NET Hello slowcoach.lut.ac.uk [158.125.1.227]
         250-SIZE 52428800
         250-PIPELINING
         250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
         250-STARTTLS
         250 HELP

SMTP>> STARTTLS

SMTP<< 220 TLS go ahead
SMTP>> EHLO slowcoach.lut.ac.uk

  SMTP<< 250-SV15.DNSLISTS.NET Hello slowcoach.lut.ac.uk [158.125.1.227]
         250-SIZE 52428800
         250-PIPELINING
         250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
         250 HELP

SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<owner-balloon@???> SIZE=3143
SMTP>> RCPT TO:<balloonlist@???>
SMTP>> DATA

SMTP<< 250 OK
SMTP<< 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
SMTP<< 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA
SMTP>> QUIT

LOG: MAIN
  == balloonlist@??? R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp
defer (0): SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT
TO:<balloonlist@???>: host balloonflightsvic.com.au
[69.93.158.147]: 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
LOG: MAIN
  ** balloonlist@???: retry timeout exceeded
LOG: MAIN
  <= <> R=1C2W1N-0004Wn-MP U=exim P=local S=3127
delivering 1C79Tm-0006cc-KO
LOG: MAIN
  Completed
[root@slowcoach root]# Connecting to egate.lut.ac.uk [158.125.1.102]:25
... connected
  SMTP<< 220 egate.lut.ac.uk ESMTP Exim 3.03 #1 Tue, 14 Sep 2004
10:20:02 +0100  SMTP>> EHLO slowcoach.lut.ac.uk
  SMTP<< 250-egate.lut.ac.uk Hello slowcoach.lut.ac.uk [158.125.1.227]
         250-SIZE
         250-PIPELINING
         250 HELP

SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=4225
SMTP>> RCPT TO:<owner-balloon@???>
SMTP>> DATA

SMTP<< 250 <> is syntactically correct
SMTP<< 250 <owner-balloon@???> is syntactically correct
SMTP<< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
SMTP>> writing message and terminating "."

SMTP<< 250 OK id=1C79Tm-00000B-00
SMTP>> QUIT

LOG: MAIN
=> owner-balloon@??? <owner-balloon@???>
R=bypass_mx_record T=remote_smtp H=egate.lut.ac.uk [158.125.1.102]
LOG: MAIN
Completed

It seems to keep getting a 451 error. I notice though that now it has
disappeared from the queue and a bounce message has been sent back to
the list owner. Not sure why this should happen when I do a manual
delivery but not as part of the normal queue runs. Our retries say kill
anything after 8 days.

Ron

> -- 
> Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
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Ron McKeating
Senior IT Services Specialist
Internet Services and Software Solutions
Loughborough University
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