Re: [exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-20 Thread Marco Gaiarin via Exim-users
Mandi! Leonardo Boselli via Exim-users In chel di` si favelave... > What is easier way ? Not 'easier', but... consider also some 'offline' transport system, like UUCP. On online host you queue email to UUCP, and intermittent host simply fetch them when needed. -- Il Re di Spagna fece

Re: [exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-19 Thread Olaf Hopp (SCC) via Exim-users
On 1/19/22 08:57, Jasen Betts via Exim-users wrote: exim can be configured how long to retry for and when to warn, you can set it to 6 months if you want (well, you might have to say 183 days I don't think exim understands months) Maximum seems to bee weeks: s seconds m minutes h

Re: [exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-19 Thread Jasen Betts via Exim-users
On 2022-01-18, Leonardo Boselli via Exim-users wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >> I still believe that it's better to solve the problem from the source - >> where the connectivity is almost unpredictable. > > log time unconnections are predictable, since does not occour

Re: [exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-18 Thread Jeremy Harris via Exim-users
On 18/01/2022 15:24, Odhiambo Washington via Exim-users wrote: he OP would rather mess up with the retry times To be fair, that's the quickest way to ensure that Exim doesn't freeze or bounce a message waiting in spool, which is needed whatever the eventual delivery method is. -- Cheers,

Re: [exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-18 Thread Odhiambo Washington via Exim-users
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 3:58 PM Cyborg via Exim-users wrote: > Am 18.01.22 um 12:02 schrieb Odhiambo Washington via Exim-users: > > Hi Leonardo, > > > > If I were you, I'd approach the problem a different way. I remember doing > > something like that with intermittently connected hosts. > > I

Re: [exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-18 Thread Cyborg via Exim-users
Am 18.01.22 um 12:02 schrieb Odhiambo Washington via Exim-users: Hi Leonardo, If I were you, I'd approach the problem a different way. I remember doing something like that with intermittently connected hosts. I would instead just queue the messages and let p.example.com to request for their

Re: [exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-18 Thread Leonardo Boselli via Exim-users
On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I still believe that it's better to solve the problem from the source - where the connectivity is almost unpredictable. log time unconnections are predictable, since does not occour by a failure, but intentionally, and system manager for both

Re: [exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-18 Thread Odhiambo Washington via Exim-users
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 3:10 PM Leonardo Boselli via Exim-users < exim-users@exim.org> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Odhiambo Washington via Exim-users wrote: > > If I were you, I'd approach the problem a different way. I remember doing > > something like that with intermittently connected hosts.

Re: [exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-18 Thread Graeme Fowler via Exim-users
On 18 Jan 2022, at 11:56, Leonardo Boselli via Exim-users wrote: > No, my situation is different: the p machine normally is connected, but for > some reason, can be unconnected for extended (days to weeks) periods of time, > or ever, more likely, to have the smtp service unactive, or even just

Re: [exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-18 Thread Leonardo Boselli via Exim-users
On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Odhiambo Washington via Exim-users wrote: If I were you, I'd approach the problem a different way. I remember doing something like that with intermittently connected hosts. I would instead just queue the messages and let p.example.com to request for their delivery when its

Re: [exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-18 Thread Odhiambo Washington via Exim-users
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 1:59 AM Leonardo Boselli via Exim-users < exim-users@exim.org> wrote: > I have two hosts a.example.com and p.example.com . > mail for example com arrive to A, but for some users is forwarded to > u...@p.example.com . > Nothing special until here, you do with a procmail

Re: [exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-17 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via Exim-users
On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, Leonardo Boselli via Exim-users wrote: I have two hosts a.example.com and p.example.com . mail for example com arrive to A, but for some users is forwarded to u...@p.example.com . Nothing special until here, you do with a procmail option at user level. The problem is that

Re: [exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-17 Thread Jeremy Harris via Exim-users
On 17/01/2022 22:56, Leonardo Boselli via Exim-users wrote: What i want to do is that when sending a message to p.example.com whatever thing happens (no route to host/ dns error / no response / closed port / 4xx or 5xx error), anything different than an accepted message, the message remains in 

[exim] sendind email to an intermittently connected host

2022-01-17 Thread Leonardo Boselli via Exim-users
I have two hosts a.example.com and p.example.com . mail for example com arrive to A, but for some users is forwarded to u...@p.example.com . Nothing special until here, you do with a procmail option at user level. The problem is that host p could be disconnected, sometime also for weeks, or