On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Mark Rigby-Jones wrote:
> Earlier in the week one customer had to take their server down and, as
> expected, mail queued up here with lots of "retry time not reached for any
> host" messages in the log. However, after a day or so, messages started to
> bounce with the message "all hosts have been failing for a long time and were
> last tried after this message arrived".
Please RTFM, in particular section 32.8 of the 4.50 manual. Exim does
host-based retrying, not message-based retrying.
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