Hmm, the first line of that log is incorrect. That was the incoming message.
---
Oct 12 16:26:31 hannibal exim-in[12444]: 1CHNbj-0003Ei-I3 <=
chris@??? H=(speedy) [10.136.100.167] P=smtp S=2266
id=03f101c4b067$776fc430$a764880a@speedy
Oct 12 16:26:32 hannibal exim-in[12446]: 1CHNbj-0003Ei-I3 **
ragema@??? R=smarthost T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached for
any host after a long failure period
Oct 12 16:26:32 hannibal exim-in[12451]: 1CHNbk-0003Ep-ED <= <>
R=1CHNbj-0003Ei-I3 U=Debian-exim P=local S=3135
Oct 12 16:26:32 hannibal exim-in[12446]: 1CHNbj-0003Ei-I3 Completed
---
This is the full log of my 'long failure period' e.g. 1 whole second! :-(
I had not send any email to this domain for days (or even weeks?) ... so it
should not be in any failure cache.
bye,
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christiaan den Besten" <chris@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:44 PM
Subject: [exim] "retry time not reached for any host after a long
failureperiod"
> Hi all !
>
> I get the following log entry in my mailq (and a failure message is send
> to me, message is -not- delivered to recipients, but flushed from queue) :
>
> ---
> Oct 12 16:25:03 hannibal exim-in[12406]: 1CHNaJ-0003E6-Qh <=
> ragema@??? H=(gonzales.scorpion.nl) [81.23.230.28] P=esmtp
> S=2500 id=OF50B144ED.FD777A3E-ONC1256F2B.004EF6BB@???
> Oct 12 16:26:32 hannibal exim-in[12446]: 1CHNbj-0003Ei-I3 **
> ragema@??? R=smarthost T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached
> for any host after a long failure period
> ---
>
> But this 'long' period of failure is 30 seconds ?... I suppose this is the
> result of:
>
> rfc1413_query_timeout = 30s
>
> It 'looks' like it is a dns issue. A seconds message send to the same user
> works like a charm.
>
> Possible affected configuration settings:
>
> ---
> host_lookup = *
> rfc1413_hosts = *
> rfc1413_query_timeout = 30s
>
> ignore_bounce_errors_after = 0d
> timeout_frozen_after = 0d
>
> begin retry
>
> * * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,6h
> ---
>
> What's wrong with this picture? I don't want bounces to be 'resend', I
> don't want 'frozen' messages in my queue, but I do want exim to retry a
> message if the first dns query to get mx-records (that what i guess is
> going wrong here ....) fails.
>
> Any hint or tips ?
>
> bye,
> Chris
>
>
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