On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 17:58 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 17:53 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > If a message is deferred because of transport problems, does it get > > re-routed when it is retried? I tried testing exim 4.69-9 on Debian Lenny. Mail to [email protected]. .forward file "deliver r...@[192.168.8.12]" (no machine at that IP). MAIN_ALLOW_DOMAIN_LITERALS=yes (Debian-specific way to enable IP literal addressing and a corresponding router).
The message fails and sits in the queue. Experiments, using exim -qf, show 1. Routing is repeated on the original edress [email protected]. So the answer to my original question is yes. I had assumed that routing was done on the edress that failed the transport, i.e., r...@[192.168.8.12], but it is done on the *original* edress. 2. To match an ip literal, e.g., in a redirect router, use domain = [192.168.8.12] I tried it without the brackets first; they are necessary. I think this means I can correct the routing on retry simply by redefining my .forward file to deliver somewhere else. As a side note, the debug messages seem to indicate that no failure information is being cached for the domain literal addresses; I'm not sure why. Ross > > > > I can't tell from the manual what the behavior is. It refers to a > > "delivery attempt"; I can't tell whether that's a complete rerun of > > message handling or just of the transport. The manual also says that > > transports manage their own retries, which suggests they might just > > re-attempt the delivery. > > > > Roger West's example (thanks for the reference) from 2010-03-09 seems to > > imply rerouting occurs on retry, though it's not clear exactly how he > > forced the mail off the queue. > > > > Searching around, I also found a message that seemed to imply the > > routing was permanent--sorry can't find it now. > Found it: > In the same thread of March 9, Phil Pennock wrote "Once a mail has been > routed, it remembers the routing." > > > > Ross Boylan > > > > > P.S. I'd appreciate cc's because list mail goes into a queue at the > moment--hence my interest in rerouting it. > -- ## 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/
