On 2017-07-03, Andreas Sachs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > i have a question to retry intervals of deferred messages. > > As far as i could see, if exims tries to send a message and receives a > temporal error (deferred), all further messages to the same recipient > are freezed until the retry interval is expired. This was observed with > only one MX entry. > > I assume that a second delivery attemp will be started immediately if a > second mx is present. > > What will happen if the second mx points to the same ip as the first? > Does exim uses the name or the ip to maintain retry intervals? > MX mx1.domain.de > MX mx2.domain.de > mx1.domain.de -> 1.2.3.4 > mx2.domain.de -> 1.2.3.4
If 1.2.3.4 says "450" exim will give up until after the apropriate retry timer expires, there will not be an immediate retry on the "other" 1.2.3.4 > Reason for this question: > I have trouble sending mail to an MX pool. There is only one MX entry > with one IP-adress. But behind the IP-adress, there is a pool of > multiple mail servers. But if the sending mail server receives a > deferred message, it is not trying another server. the load-balancer for that pool is broken. > (i cannot change this setup) I'm guessing whoever set that up wants it to be broken like that. -- This email has not been checked by half-arsed antivirus software -- ## List details at https://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/
