Marcin Krol <[email protected]> (Di 03 Mär 2009 19:05:28 CET):
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have an Exim server as backup mailserver (lower MX priority) with 
> manual route and retries set as follows:
> 
> begin retry
> 
> *                      *           F,12h,5m; G,24h,1h,1.5; F,4d,6h
> 
> So it should retry delivering mail every 5 minutes for 12 hrs, right?
> 
> Well, no - as it happened, the main company link went down for 2 hrs and 
> the backup server did deliver all the mail after the link was repaired, 
> but according to logs it was retrying delivery of queued mails every 
> 30-40 minutes.
> 
> Why? What other settings may impact retry frequency?

It depends mainly on how often you start the queue runner.
(From the main process or from the crontab...)

-- 
Heiko

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