On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Christiaan den Besten wrote:
> What usually happend:
> - I send a message to a recipient sending me a message.
> - It bounces right back to me.
> - I send another messages to the same recipient within the same minute. No
> problems, delivered promptly without errors.
On the face of it, that is completely weird. I can think of ways this
could happen, but they are unusual. For example: If the recipient is
remote, and Exim has to use the DNS, and the name servers for the domain
have got out of step. One time one server might yield one IP address and
the next time a different server yields a different address. So, for a
first check: Are the IP addresses that Exim uses in both cases the same?
They should be listed in the log lines.
> Can I somehow send some debug info into syslog explaining me what info exim is
> retrieving from is retry database or something?
You can't get info into syslog, but you can run Exim with debugging
turned on to do a single delivery. For example
exim -d someone@???
Your message here
.
You will get a lot of debugging output send to the standard error.
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