John W. Baxter wrote:
>
> None of that explains why Exim is giving up after the message's 13-second
> lifetime in the queue, which is the actual problem you're facing
As Tony already pointed out[0], exim is not giving up, it's deferring
until later for another retry.
The repeated delivery attempts in Paul's message are not exim retrying
too fast; rather, they are exim trying once, hitting each of the 4 A
records defined in DNS for the MX mx.southern.net.au, before deferring
the message for another attempt later. This would have been a lot more
obvious if Paul hadn't ignored the list policy[1] by obfuscating the
domain names and IP addresses.
[0]
http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20050502/msg00145.html
[1]
http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/MailingListEtiquette#head-a6f7fb5ce8816568569a321f783315207ec38063
- Marc
