Re: [exim] Messages in the queue that seem to last forever?

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Author: Sander Smeenk
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Messages in the queue that seem to last forever?
Quoting Philip Hazel (ph10@???):

> > As it turns out, these messages eventually *do* leave the queue. But i
> > still don't understand why they stay on queue for about twice the time
> > specified by the retry rules.
> Check out ignore_bounce_errors_after and timeout_frozen_after.


From my earlier message, i quote:

| Quoting Sander Smeenk (ssmeenk@???):
| > Exim seems to keep these messages around forever. As they are not 5xx
| > errors they do not freeze and timeout_frozen_after doesn't kick in.


Though this might not be very clear, i did check my timeout_frozen_ and
ignore_bounce_errors_after settings. They are:

| ignore_bounce_errors_after = 2h
| timeout_frozen_after = 7d


But please note that these messages aren't frozen. They keep receiving
'4xx Try Again Later' from the remote mailservers, so they should hit
the retry rule timeout which is:

| *    *   F,4h,5m; F,16h,30m; F,7d,3h


7d at max. I'm sorry for not indicating that clearly ;)

Kind regards,
Sander.
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