Hello, 2008/3/12, Phil Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 2008-03-12 at 10:33 +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > So the example router could look like this? > > > No, because it has two domains specifications. > > If you remove the first one, then yes. > > > > My question is more general though. In situations when I get > > connection timeouts, I would like mail to be bounced after the retry > > period passes. And when it does, I'd like exim to bounce only > > particular email without affecting other emails to the same domain. So > > each email should be queued for 4 days before it gets bounced. And I > > would like this to happen not only for yahoo but for other domains. I > > know it creates some overhead but I can live with that. However, this > > applies only to timeouts, not to 5.5.4 or the like errors. > > > Exim's retry hints database is per-host or per-address, not per-message. > Of course, that can change -- the developers welcome patches. > > Some people might consider your desired behaviour abusive, since if > there are N mails queued up, the repeated attempts to deliver each mail > every so often would result in N attempts per retry timeout, which can > build up quite fast. > > If you have so few mails that this really isn't a concern (ie, you're in > the situation I'm in these days with my Exim setup) then there's no real > issue in noticing a build-up of mails in your queue and jumping through > whichever hoops are mutually acceptable to you and the recipient > domain's postmaster. In the middle ground between these two extremes, > your proposal runs the risk of exceeding sensitive DoS thresholds which > the biggest freemail providers have.
Right - thank you Phil. I do have about 6K emails to send per day so yes it can build up quite fast. So I will probably give up on this idea. -- Zbigniew Szalbot -- ## 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/
