my mail server mail.shire.net (currently 4.51) is a secondary MX for
another customer of mine who has his own smtp server running (which I
also run for him) which is mail.object.com. mail.object.com does
greylisting with the Marc Merlin spamassassin greylist stuff.
Once in a while the following happens:
incoming mail goes to mail.object.com and is deferred with a 451 due
to greylisting
incoming mail is retried to secondary MX, mail.shire.net, which
accepts it and tries to deliver it. mail.object.com defers it due to
greylisting with a 451
mail.shire.net never tries again do to he "retry not reached"
condition. It seems enough real crap come through or something that
the retry time is never reached due to it constantly being "reset"
from real rejections of real crap. Does that make sense?
The retry rules for object.com are as follows:
object.com * F,100d,15m
and my log on mail.shire.net is full of (I have obfuscate the actual
recipient email address due to spam harvesters reading this list since
it is not important to the problem). This one has been going on since
the early afternoon of march 13 with never an actual retry to send
2008-03-15 16:43:43 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 17:03:58 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 17:08:00 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 17:30:20 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 17:42:06 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 18:18:52 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 18:33:47 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 18:42:07 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 18:55:06 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 19:32:56 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 19:39:23 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 20:20:06 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 20:41:04 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 21:00:05 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 21:13:25 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 21:18:35 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 21:43:09 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 22:02:52 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 22:20:00 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 23:02:59 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 23:11:53 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 23:34:02 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 23:57:58 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-15 23:58:35 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-16 00:34:53 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-16 00:57:23 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-16 01:13:28 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-16 01:26:11 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-16 02:04:41 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
2008-03-16 02:15:15 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == name@??? routing defer
(-51): retry time not reached
I have read through the retry bit on exim.org but am unsure if I am
understanding how this should be working.
Thanks
Chad
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Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Your Web App and Email hosting provider
chad at shire.net
