Lena wrote:
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> http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=893
> Summary: Not enough info in DSN ('retry timeout exceeded')
> Product: Exim
> Version: 4.68
> Platform: All
> OS/Version: All
> Status: NEW
> Severity: wishlist
> Priority: low
> Component: Delivery in general
> AssignedTo: nigel@???
> ReportedBy: Lena@???
> CC: exim-dev@???
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> I haven't access to the log of my ISP's relay (Exim 4.68). All I get from it is
> DSN ("Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender"). Sometimes
> it says: "retry timeout exceeded". But why the message was deferred? An example
> of the log excerpt from another bug report:
>
> mainlog:2007-02-06 11:15:09 1HEVjT-0003wA-NJ
> inbound.hughes.net.cust.securehostedemail.com [64.97.131.1] Connection timed
> out
> mainlog:2007-02-06 11:15:09 1HEVjT-0003wA-NJ == xxxxx@??? R=lookuphost
> T=remote_smtp defer (110): Connection timed out
> mainlog:2007-02-06 11:15:09 1HEVjT-0003wA-NJ ** xxxx@???: retry timeout
> exceeded
>
> The DSN should include the for example "Connection timed out" from the last
> retry attempt in addition to the "retry timeout exceeded".
>
>
AFAIK, these are events that *may* be more widely separated in time and
causality than the same-second timestamp (above), ergo perhaps a 'non-trivial'
exercise to associate.
grep '1HEVjT-0003wA-NJ' ~/exim/mainlog
.. clearly associates the history, even if other entries were to be
interspersed, does it not?
JM2CW
Bill Hacker
