Re: [exim] retry configuration

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Author: Catalin Constantin
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Subject: Re: [exim] retry configuration
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:47:59PM +0300, Catalin Constantin wrote:
>> Even after setting retry_use_local_part, no luck.
>> It looks like Lena suggested that this configuration is ignored for
>> remote transports.
>
> Yeah, bummer.  Not sure why that is.
>
> Anyway, there's something suficiently odd about your configuration then.
> We send a much larger number of messages to Yahoo than that, and never
> run into problems.

The odd part in this whole issue is that sending with Postfix from the
same system is
FAST enough. Trying to switch to Exim (cause of extra config options)
ended up with this
BIG deliverability issue.
>
> I'd suggest you try and find out why you are getting hit with greylisting
> when others who are sending much more are not.
>

The grey list is something regular for hosts which do not send very
high volumes of email.
Not being able to proper retry a delivery cause of miss
implementations (or no implementation) could be
considered a bug ? Should i submit the bug or feature request ?

Triggering from cron:
# exim -qf
is not pretty nice for a workaround.

> We handle tens of millions of messages a month and have never run into
> problem with remote retries.  Now, that being said, we do have split
> queues for immediate deliveries, deferred deliveries, and slow delivery
> hosts to keep things running tip-top, but still no underlying problems
> with retries on a per domain basis.

You can consider this "luck" :)

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Catalin Constantin
Dazoot Software
http://www.dazoot.eu/