On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Mike Brudenell wrote: > When a message can't be delivered because the recipient's mailbox is > full an entry gets added to the hints database. When a subsequent > message arrives delivery is attempted and, when it fails, Exim > appears to consult the hints database and then decides it should > immediately REJECT (as against defer) the incoming message.
That shouldn't happen. (And doesn't here.) It should defer the delivery attempt. > If I sneakily delete the hints database and then send another test > message it gets deferred and held in the queue as I expect. > > I assume this is to try and keep the size of the queue small when a > recipient is known to have a full mailbox and messages keep pouring in. The time for which it holds the message is controlled by the retry rules. Have you set up a short retry time for quota errors? -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
