Re: [exim] Frozen after mysterious error

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Autor: Peter Bowyer
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To: exim users
Betreff: Re: [exim] Frozen after mysterious error
On 02/04/06, Kai Hendry <hendry@???> wrote:
> 2006-04-02 17:03:18 1FPxYK-00017y-T4 ** hendry@??? R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<hendry@???>: host mail.khanworks.com [208.97.132.20]: 554 <hendry@???>: Recipient address rejected: Policy Rejection: Mysterious Error.


The remote system is rejecting the recipient address.

> 2006-04-02 17:03:18 1FPxYK-00017y-T4 Frozen (delivery error message)


... and since what you were trying to deliver was a bounce, Exim
freezes the message in order not to create a loop of bounce messages.

> I looked in the mailq to find loads of messages frozen. I always assumed
> that once a message was frozen, it's not going anywhere. In the past
> I've just deleted them. Though after finding:
> http://exim.org/exim-html-4.60/doc/html/spec.html/ch14.html#id2569494


> Would these frozen messages get retried? I am unsure.


Only if you configure them to be retried, which is not generally what
you want to do. What does your config say?

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Peter Bowyer
Email: peter@???