Hi, I'm stumped. I've been staring at this for an hour now and can't figure out why Exim is retrying this particular message so often. We're using Exim 4.61 on Solaris.
Someone here sent an email to AOL is rejecting with a 421 response for some spam blocking rubbish. Our retry rules consist of only: * * F,1h,20m; F,4h,30m; F,2d,1h I did a snapshot dumpdb of the retry database and saw: T:mailin-04.mx.aol.com:205.188.159.217:1FZ8QG-0000A7-Gc -46 5453 SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host mailin-04.mx.aol.com [205.188.159.217]: 421-: (RLY:CS4) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/err 27-Apr-2006 11:28:58 27-Apr-2006 13:55:50 27-Apr-2006 14:25:50 The previous delivery that matches the above entry is: 2006-04-27 13:55:46 1FZ8QG-0000A7-Gc SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host mailin-04.mx.aol.com [205.188.159.217]: 421-: (RLY:CS4) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/421rlycs4.html\n421 SERVICE NOT AVAILABLE Everything looks good and makes sense, and then out of nowhere, it retries well before 14:25:50 ever comes around and retries the same darned host for the same message id. 2006-04-27 14:16:14 1FZ8QG-0000A7-Gc SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: host mailin-04.mx.aol.com [205.188.159.217]: 421-: (RLY:CS4) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/421rlycs4.html\n421 SERVICE NOT AVAILABLE Now, its possible that I have multiple queue runners going at the same time since they run every 15 minutes, and it may actually take an hour to go through the queue. We use the -qq option on Exim to do queue runs. Is it possible that the -qq option checks retry times at beginning of execution so that multiple queue runners end up processing the same message over and over since maybe retry times are checked at startup of a -qq queue run? Regards, Dean Brooks General Manager IgLou Internet Services, Inc. Telephone (502) 966-3848 x1124 3315 Gilmore Industrial Blvd. Facsimile (502) 968-0449 Louisville, Kentucky 40213 E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/