On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Chris Russell wrote: > Hi All, > > Since we updated to exim 4.72 I've started this error a couple of times > - basically exim ignoring retry and immediately bouncing email. > > Customer server was offline at the time, however exim should have queued > and then retried, instead - this happened: > > 2011-01-05 13:42:46 1PaTdV-0002br-Cy <= > [email protected] H=smtp43.migrationexpert.com > [203.89.253.143] P=esmtp S=19273 > [email protected] > > [ Processed by MailScanner which then puts this into an outbound queue ] > > 2011-01-05 13:43:25 1PaTdV-0002br-Cy ** [email protected] > <[email protected]> R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached > for any host after a long failure period 2011-01-05 13:43:25 > 1PaTe9-0002eu-Dv <= <> R=1PaTdV-0002br-Cy U=exim P=local S=20618 > 2011-01-05 13:43:25 1PaTdV-0002br-Cy Completed > > Retry config : > > # Address or Domain Error Retries > # ----------------- ----- ------- > > * * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,6h > > If it was once, I`d say glitch but this happened with 20-25 individual > emails - has anyone seen any similar behaviour ? DNS is absolutely fine, > only the customer server would have timed out (and I've only seen this > since the update to 4.72) - headers from one of the bounces generated > also back up the times in the logs. > > Thanks > > Chris >
I've seen this occasionally happen with other (pre-4.72 versions of exim), but have never been able to track down the root cause. I usually delete the retry db files and restart exim which clears it up. Have not had reports from any customers re this happening in 4.72, at least not yet. Would <3 to know what the heck is causing it and fix it permanently. -- -------------------------------------------------------- Dave Lugo [email protected] No spam, thanks. Are you the police? . . . No ma'am, we're sysadmins. -------------------------------------------------------- -- ## 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/
