Re: [exim] Retry problems.

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: David Woodhouse
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Retry problems.
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, David Woodhouse wrote:

> Do we store the ultimate timeout in the retry hints database when we
> first fail to deliver the mail, then bounce it later even if the
> ultimate timeout in configuration file has been changed?


No. All that Exim stores is time of first failure, time of last try,
time before which it shouldn't try again, and an "expired" bit. In other
words, exactly what you get out from exim_dumpdb.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service
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