Re: [exim] Retries and greylisting

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Lähettäjä: Renaud Allard
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Vastaanottaja: Magnus Holmgren
Kopio: exim-users
Aihe: Re: [exim] Retries and greylisting


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.

>


I upgraded to the snapshot version yesterday, but I still have exactly
the same behaviour, so it seems this is another bug.
If you wish me to make some tests to help diagnose the problem, I will
do them gladly.