On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 04:35:40PM +0300, Pavel Gulchouck writes:

PH>> Exim always inspects all messages, but if one message has a temporary 
PH>> error, the remaining messages will see "retry time not reached". BUT, if 
PH>> they have been on the queue sufficiently long, they should be bounced.

PG> If the problem is still in 4.62, I'll tell you.

Situation did not change on 4.62. :-(

I have a message in the queue:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>mailq | head -3
 7d  1.8K 1FZbrw-000HzZ-Up <>
          [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>exinext [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Route: [EMAIL PROTECTED] error -44: SMTP error from remote mail
server after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host gsmtp163.google.com
[64.233.163.27]: 450-4.2.1 The Gmail user you are tr
  first failed: 29-Apr-2006 01:35:16
  last tried:   05-May-2006 16:13:47
  next try at:  05-May-2006 22:13:47
  past final cutoff time

Then I sent another message to this recipient using command
"exim -d+retry -M 1FaiWp-000Msh-04" (got temporary error,
output is saved). After this message 1FZbrw-000HzZ-Up is still
in the queue and next try time was increased:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>exinext [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Route: [EMAIL PROTECTED] error -44: SMTP error from remote mail
server after RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host gsmtp183.google.com
[64.233.183.27]: 450-4.2.1 The Gmail user you are tr
  first failed: 29-Apr-2006 01:35:16
  last tried:   05-May-2006 16:49:04
  next try at:  05-May-2006 22:49:04
  past final cutoff time

The result is having many messages older then 4 days in the queue,
which can be removed only when next delivery trying to this recipient
will be with this messages, but not with any other. One try every 6 hours,
so, one removed old message to this recipient every 6 hours in the
best case. :-(

-- 
                                Lucky carrier,
                                                  Pavel.

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