On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Patrick von der Hagen wrote: > So, basically I was quite sure, but when challenged by the ultimate > exim-guru, I immediately loose confidence. ;-)
The ultimate exim-guru is getting old and forgetful and doesn't always remember to read his own manual before responding to postings. :-) > Section 32 of the manual says: "When a delivery is not part of a queue > run (typically an immediate delivery on receipt of a message), the > routers are always run, and local deliveries are always attempted, even > if retry times are set for them. This makes for better behaviour if one > particular message is causing problems (for example, causing quota > overflow, or provoking an error in a filter file). If such a delivery > suffers a temporary failure, the retry data is updated as normal, and > subsequent delivery attempts from queue runs occur only when the retry > time for the local address is reached." Ah yes, sorry, I had forgotten that. Retries for address errors do indeed apply only to queue runs. So forget everything I said. :-) -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## 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/
