Hello,
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:13:41PM -0500, Robert Fleming wrote:
> my mail server was not able to connect for several days
> and now all mail gets bounced back.
> in the return message i get
>
>
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> receiplients. This is a permanent error. the following address(es)
> failed:
>
> wally@???
> host lookup for mail.implicit.com did not complete (DNS timeout?):
> retry timeout exceeded
>
>
> all smtp mail is handled by my smarthost router
> how can i reset so exim will start trying to route mail again?
Just delete the retry database:
rm <path to spool directory>/db/retry*
where <path to spool directory> can be obtained through
exim -bP | grep 'spool_directory ='
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