my mail server mail.shire.net (currently 4.51) is a secondary MX for another customer of mine who has his own smtp server running (which I also run for him) which is mail.object.com. mail.object.com does greylisting with the Marc Merlin spamassassin greylist stuff.
Once in a while the following happens: incoming mail goes to mail.object.com and is deferred with a 451 due to greylisting incoming mail is retried to secondary MX, mail.shire.net, which accepts it and tries to deliver it. mail.object.com defers it due to greylisting with a 451 mail.shire.net never tries again do to he "retry not reached" condition. It seems enough real crap come through or something that the retry time is never reached due to it constantly being "reset" from real rejections of real crap. Does that make sense? The retry rules for object.com are as follows: object.com * F,100d,15m and my log on mail.shire.net is full of (I have obfuscate the actual recipient email address due to spam harvesters reading this list since it is not important to the problem). This one has been going on since the early afternoon of march 13 with never an actual retry to send 2008-03-15 16:43:43 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 17:03:58 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 17:08:00 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 17:30:20 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 17:42:06 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 18:18:52 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 18:33:47 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 18:42:07 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 18:55:06 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 19:32:56 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 19:39:23 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 20:20:06 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 20:41:04 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 21:00:05 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 21:13:25 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 21:18:35 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 21:43:09 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 22:02:52 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 22:20:00 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 23:02:59 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 23:11:53 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 23:34:02 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 23:57:58 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-15 23:58:35 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-16 00:34:53 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-16 00:57:23 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-16 01:13:28 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-16 01:26:11 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-16 02:04:41 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2008-03-16 02:15:15 1JZuEO-000JNF-Bi == [EMAIL PROTECTED] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached I have read through the retry bit on exim.org but am unsure if I am understanding how this should be working. Thanks Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net -- ## 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/
