Re: [exim] Messages bouncing too soon

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Mark Rigby-Jones
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Messages bouncing too soon
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Mark Rigby-Jones wrote:

> 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?


The timeout depends on your retry settings. I am currently in Maputo, on
the end of a very slow network connection, and I cannot devote much time
to email. If you want to do further checking, the thing to do would be
to send a test message to one of the failing domains, with debugging
enabled, and using the -N command line option so that it doesn't
actually get delivered. The debugging output should give some clue as to
why it is bouncing. (I presume you are using release 4.50; if not, scan
the ChangeLogs to see if there's anything relevant that has been
changed.)

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