I have exim setup to hold mail for as long as 7 days in the event of a
delivery problem to the remote server.
My retry section is quite simple.
* * F,2d,15m; F,7d,1h;
This normally works just fine. However sometimes I see a message rejected
right away, it never tries delivery at all.
In this log a message is received an rejected in the same second, without
even tryin the delivery at all.
2015-05-13 18:32:00 1YsbRo-0003OZ-JD <= mj@??? H=(s81a.ikbb.com)
[192.168.81.5] P=esmtps X=TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256 S=127222 id=
676D93E5D90427499D1C4B805FE4FA4F0D7BAE@??? T="RE:
TEST" from <mj@???> for ds@???
2015-05-13 18:32:00 1YsbRo-0003OZ-JD ** ds@??? F=<mj@???>
R=ikbb_router T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached for any host after a
long failure period
2015-05-13 18:32:00 1YsbRo-0003Rt-Kv <= <> R=1YsbRo-0003OZ-JD U=mail
P=local S=110175 T="Mail delivery failed" from <> for SRS0=PTyV=FY=
rocore.com=mjames@???
2015-05-13 18:32:00 1YsbRo-0003OZ-JD Completed
What can cause this type of thing? Why is Exim not holding the message for
delivery.
Rob