Hello, I'm stumped on this one. I've been looking into it for a few weeks but either I've lost my Googlability or I'm on the wrong track. You can't search what you don't know, I guess.
Essentially, normal mail delivery seems fine. If an attempt fails (usually due to simple greylisting) delivery is deferred. BUT, it never tries again. I can manually force a delivery attempt, and the message goes through fine. But if I don't, it will sit forever. Server being only a couple months old, I cannot confirm if this has ever worked correctly... I only discovered the problem a few weeks ago, and some messages were over 60 days old __but not Frozen__. Example: Someone today sent out an email almost two hours ago. I would expect retries every 15 minutes. However, I see the initial attempt in the log, but nothing after that: ===== exigrep 1JhU2N-0002ly /var/log/exim_mainlog ===== +++ 1JhU2N-0002ly-Fj has not completed +++ 2008-04-03 13:19:47 1JhU2N-0002ly-Fj <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=localhost [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=7071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-04-03 13:19:47 1JhU2N-0002ly-Fj mailscanner.example2.com [129.66.xx.xx] Connection refused 2008-04-03 13:19:47 1JhU2N-0002ly-Fj == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (111): Connection refused [root]# date Thu Apr 3 15:12:08 CDT 2008 =========================================== Checking the retry database shows the time for retry has clearly come: ===== exim_dumpdb /var/spool/exim retry ===== (...) T:mailscanner.example2.com:129.66.xx.xx 111 77 Connection refused 03-Apr-2008 13:19:47 03-Apr-2008 13:19:47 03-Apr-2008 13:34:47 (...) ==================================== And finally: ===== exim.conf retry section ===== begin retry * * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,3d,8h =========================== ...ideas? I got nothing. What triggers these retry deliveries? Is there another process/daemon that has perhaps failed? Have I inadvertantly turned something off? Thanks greatly for any help! -Adam -- ## 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/
