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
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