Author: Dean Brooks Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Retry time not reached for any host after a long failure
period
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 02:08:19PM +0100, Sander Smeenk wrote: > The internet is full of crap about a delivery failure message returned
> by Exim: "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
>
> [snip]
>
> However, i can't seem to explain to my cow-orkers why it is our MTA
> *immediately* rejects a message to a destination that has had issues for
> a longer time. They would expect Exim to queue the message and retry
> before returning it to the sender as failed. Actually, i do too.
You can find out more about this behavior in section 32.10 in the
docs. Also check the delay_after_cutoff boolean transport option.
