That's great, thanks for that.
Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Steve Sargent wrote:
>
>
>>I now have a message that's been in the queue for 6 days:-
>
>
>>Route: ybw008@??? error 0: SMTP error from remote mailer after
>>RCPT TO:<ybw008@???>: host localhost.qmul.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]: 452
>>4.2.2 Over quota
>> first failed: 21-Jun-2005 13:36:35
>> last tried: 27-Jun-2005 14:06:50
>> next try at: 27-Jun-2005 22:06:50
>> past final cutoff time
>
>
> OK, so it does know it has hit the end of the retry time.
>
>
>>Exim version 4.34 uid=500 gid=500 pid=24006 D=fbb95cfd
>
>
> Was this with -M or with -Mc?
>
>
>>LOG: MAIN
>> == ybw008@??? R=local_user_cyrus T=lmtp_delivery_over_ip defer
>>(0): SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<ybw008@???>:
>>host localhost.qmul.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]: 452 4.2.2 Over quota
>
>
> It hits the problem....
>
>
>>Writing retry data for R:ybw008@???
>> first failed=1119357395 last try=1119884573 next try=1119913373 expired=1
>> error 0 65: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT
>>TO:<ybw008@???>: host localhost.qmul.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]: 452 4.2.2
>>Over quota
>
>
> ... updates the retry data ...
>
>
>>dbfn_write: key=R:ybw008@???
>>timed out: all retries expired
>
> LOG: MAIN
> ** ybw008@???: retry timeout exceeded
>
> ... and times out, as it should. Mutter.
>
> However, you are running quite an old version of Exim (4.34). It is
> possible this has been fixed. Here is a ChangeLog entry from 4.43:
>
> 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
> same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
> same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
> remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
> would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
> after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
> bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
> in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
> after the received time, and all would be well.
>
> The current release is 4.51, but I expect to release 4.52 before the end
> of this week.
>
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