On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:11:49PM -0400, Sergei Gerasenko wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. What I would like to know first of all is the
> reason for the descrepancy between the output of "exim -bp" and the
> retry hint database. "exim -bp" gives, say 58 hours for a message while
> the hint database shows completely different times for the same message.
>
> Because of that, a lot of those messages that have been on the
> queue for more than 2 hours are still tried every 15 minutes. I
> would like the geometric progression to kick in after 2 hours as the
> default rule indicates.
Keep in mind that in Exim, messages don't retry. *Hosts* retry. So
there could be some intermittent issue that causes the retry times
to reset. Couple of things:
1. What version of Exim are you using? Make sure you are using 4.68
as there were some minor retry issues resolved in recent versions.
2. What is the exact command line of the daemon that is running on
your system (i.e. -bd -q15m, etc)?
2. Can you show the list the detailed log entries for one of the
messages affected? Use exigrep so that you are sure to grab all the
detail for that particular message id.
> Also does anybody know how to make exim stop trying to deliver a bounce
> message? I would like one attempt made and if unsuccessful, the message
> should be just discarded.
One of the easiest ways would be to use a system_filter and inside it
put something like:
if error_message and not first_delivery
then
seen finish
endif
--
Dean Brooks
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