[exim] Delayed Delivery

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Author: Edward Raymond Kryda
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: [exim] Delayed Delivery

I had a message that took around 19 hours to actually get delivered. Anyone
have any ideas why? Here's the intitial log entry when it was recieved:

Feb 2 07:45:20 sys16 exim[30853]: 2006-02-02 07:45:20 1F4dpu-00081d-2h <=
testuser@??? U=testuser P=local S=6343
id=200602021245.HAA21997@???
Feb 2 07:45:20 sys16 exim[30853]: 2006-02-02 07:45:20 1F4dpu-00081d-2h no
immediate delivery: load average 21.99

The load average went back down around 7:46:13 and there were no other
non-delivery messsages because of load average after that.

Here's the actual delivery log messages:
Feb 3 03:36:25 sys16 exim[8636]: 2006-02-03 03:36:25 1F4dpu-00081d-2h =>
testuser@??? R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=link.acns.msu.edu
[35.8.2.138]
Feb 3 03:36:25 sys16 exim[8636]: 2006-02-03 03:36:25 1F4dpu-00081d-2h
Completed

I didn't see any "retry time not reached for any host" messages which seems
odd.

Some of the valid exim config settings that I'm using that might be helpful:
ignore_bounce_errors_after = 1d
timeout_frozen_after = 3d
auto_thaw = 1h

smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 70
smtp_accept_max = 256
smtp_accept_max_per_host = 10
smtp_connect_backlog = 50
return_size_limit = 10K
helo_accept_junk_hosts = *
deliver_queue_load_max = 20
queue_only_load = 20
# max msg size
message_size_limit = 50M

# recieve timeout
smtp_receive_timeout = 60s

#retry configuration
*@+real_local_domains   *               F,2h,15m; F,8h,30m; F,7d,60m; 
F,14d,2h
*@*                     refused_A       F,2h,15m; G,16h,30m,1.5
*@*             timeout_connect_A       F,2h,15m; G,16h,30m,1.5
*@*                     *               F,2h,15m; G,16h,30m,1.5; F,5d,8h 


Oh, and lastly exim is run using this command line:
/usr/sbin/exim -bd -q30m

Thanks for the help,
Ed