Here is my situation.
Using exim 4.34 built from freebsd-ports to do antivirus/antispam scanning (via
MailScanner) and sending all scanned mail to back-end mailhub via smart_route
(manualroute).
Anyway, this all works great when the mailhub that the mail is routed to is up
and working. However, if that machine refuses connections on port 25 for
whatever reason (or is just down completely), messages are not being queued up
for the proper amount of time and are timing out immediately.
My retry config (from configure_outgoing):
# Domain Error Retries
# ------ ----- -------
* * F,2d,1s; F,4d,6h
I call exim two ways:
/usr/local/sbin/exim -C /usr/local/etc/exim/configure_incoming -bd (exim-4.34-0)
(for incoming messages)
and:
/usr/local/sbin/exim -C /usr/local/etc/exim/configure_outgoing -qff (exim-4.34-0)
(to process the queue)
Example from the mainlog:
2005-05-31 15:10:09 1DdD3x-0004pr-KN <= susanc@??? H=(yahoo.com)
[207.104.211.110] P=esmtp S=17709 id=3246B18F59C6184EA13492A2E14783697BE220@tunxch01
2005-05-31 15:10:39 1DdD3x-0004pr-KN 68.91.137.174 [68.91.137.174]: Connection
refused
2005-05-31 15:10:39 1DdD3x-0004pr-KN == tina.russell@???
R=customer_route T=remote_smtp defer (61): Connection refused
2005-05-31 15:10:39 1DdD3x-0004pr-KN ** tina.russell@???: retry timeout
exceeded
2005-05-31 15:10:39 1DdD4R-0004zk-A5 <= <> R=1DdD3x-0004pr-KN U=mailnull P=local
S=18816
2005-05-31 15:10:39 1DdD3x-0004pr-KN Completed
Any advice would be appreciated.
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Mike Bacher / listacct@???
TCIS - TulsaConnect Internet Services
http://www.tulsaconnect.com
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