[exim] greylist and retry configuration problems

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Author: Paul
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Subject: [exim] greylist and retry configuration problems

Hi Guys,

Sorry if this has been answered in the past, I've tried a search in the
archives. Exim 4.34 with a fairly standard configuration.
We are relaying mail from one host to another and the destination host is
running a greylist setup. No problem with that however our exim doesn't try
for long enough and gives up too quickly.
Below are the log entries I am seeing and also an extract from our exim
retry configuration. I've tried something simple as double the values and it
still didn't help and it just gave up after about 1 and 1/2 minutes.

2005-05-05 11:39:10 1DTVKY-0000i3-0u <= pop@??? U=pop
P=local S=480 id=4279793E.mail23J1Q2XET@???
2005-05-05 11:39:11 1DTVKY-0000i3-0u SMTP error from remote mailer after
RCPT TO:<Mrs.User@???>: host mx1.southern.net.au
[100.100.100.2]: 450 <pop@???>: Sender address
rejected: Service temporarily unavailable, please try later
2005-05-05 11:39:15 1DTVKY-0000i3-0u SMTP error from remote mailer after
RCPT TO:<Mrs.User@???>: host mx1.southern.net.au
[100.100.100.3]: 450 <pop@???>: Sender address
rejected: Service temporarily unavailable, please try later
2005-05-05 11:39:18 1DTVKY-0000i3-0u SMTP error from remote mailer after
RCPT TO:<Mrs.User@???>: host mx1.southern.net.au
[100.100.100.4]: 450 <pop@???>: Sender address
rejected: Service temporarily unavailable, please try later
2005-05-05 11:39:21 1DTVKY-0000i3-0u SMTP error from remote mailer after
RCPT TO:<Mrs.User@???>: host mx1.southern.net.au
[100.100.100.5]: 450 <pop@???>: Sender address
rejected: Service temporarily unavailable, please try later
2005-05-05 11:39:23 1DTVKY-0000i3-0u == Mrs.User@???
<Mrs.User@???> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (0): SMTP
error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<Mrs.User@???>:
host mx3.southern.net.au [100.200.100.100]: 450
<pop@???>: Sender address rejected: Service temporarily
unavailable, please try later


*                       *               F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,6h
*@TheDestination.com.au               *               F,8h,50m


I tried other various combinations, also trying with exim -brt, none of
which would match the seperate rule I put for the domain (or it's MX's as a
test). Even doubling the default * rule values didn't help.

Thanks

Paul