Re: [exim] Retries and greylisting

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Autor: Dean Brooks
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Assumpte: Re: [exim] Retries and greylisting
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:11:55PM +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 February 2007 12:51, Renaud Allard wrote:
> > This is a _new_ mail sent from the internal server (192.168.100.12) from
> > fpouchain@??? to chardon@??? using exim 4.66 as a mail
> > relay between the internal server and the internet.
> >
> > As we can see, a first attempt is made on the primary MX: SMTP1, it gets
> > a 450 error for greylisting. Quite obviously exim retries to SMTP2 and
> > also gets a 450 error. But exim never retries and interprets this as a
> > permanent error.
>
> This may be another instance of the address_retry_include_sender bug,
> introduded in 4.64 and fixed in CVS:
>
> PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
>       was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
>       item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
>       fixed.


It this fix something the rest of us should be concerned about?

That is, is this considered an emergency hotfix we should all install,
or does it only affect unusual configurations?

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Dean Brooks
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