On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, at 20:08, Philip Hazel typed:
> 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.
*nods* I am aware of that, my issue is that the host had been failed for
less than two days (I verified this in the retry db file, unfortunately the
customer got their server back up before I could snapshot it), whilst the
retry rule had two weeks until the final cutoff.
I would expect messages to be bounced quickly once the remote host had been
down for two weeks or more, but I wouldn't expect any messages to be
bounced during the first two weeks - or am I misunderstanding something?
Thanks,
mrj
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