So my ISP uses exim and I use .forward to call a perlscript to further filter my mail.
What I observe is that whenever my ISP has an issue with their mail server a queue will build and all the senders of the messages that couldn't be delivered to me will eventually retry delivery. What surprises me is that although I would normally expect to see messages eventually arrive on their own when their queue is flushed. Occasionally it requires me to send myself a test message to get things moving. That suggests to me some misconfiguration of exim such that the queue or delivery of messages blocks at some point and unblocks when I send myself a test message. So whenever I send myself a test message I notice a lot more mail arrive out of sequence than would have had I not had sent myself the message. -- ## 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/
