On 2 Oct 2009, at 12:20, Lena@??? wrote:
>>
>> Exim then appears to refuse to retry for an unreasonably long period
>> of time. For example, exim successfully sends a mail at 20:54. It
>> then receives a number of time outs up to 20:58. Then, it does not
>> appear to retry until 04:57 the following morning
>
> Which Exim version are you using? If not 4.69 then upgrade,
> AFAIR it's a known bug fixed in version 4.67.
Thanks for the reply. We're actually on 4.62.
Is this the fix you're referring to:
"PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when
address_retry_include_sender
was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete
the retry
item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is
now
fixed."
(from
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.67
)
If so that shouldn't affect us (wrong version and we don't set that
option), although I suspect we should upgrade anyway.
thanks,
Paul