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Author: Simon Johnstone
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To: exim users
New-Topics: Re: [exim] Retry hint left over after successfuldelivery
Subject: Re: [exim] *Suspect* Re: Retry hint left over after successful delivery
On 27 May 2010, at 18:44, W B Hacker wrote:

> - set retry to fail - not at 3 or 4 days, but rather at one day or less. Even 15
> minutes may be appreciated by some business clients.


Interesting approach - I tend to drop delay_warning fairly low for similar reasons.

> The poor souls sitting behind dodgy or over-zealous greylisters, otherwise
> unreliable servers- noen of which you can 'fix' from your end - self-Identify to
> their correspondents, (and no others). Those now-alerted correspondents may then
> seek some other way to reach them if the situation warrants that.
>
> ...and there are not likely to be many retry hints at large, duplicated or
> otherwise.


What happens to the retry hint(s) created during the first delivery attempt?