On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 23:55 +0300, Catalin Constantin wrote: > With Exim the only issue is retry. It does not retry to deliver the > email soon enough.
So... change the retry rules. If you have the defaults, they are: > begin retry > > # This single retry rule applies to all domains and all errors. It specifies > # retries every 15 minutes for 2 hours, then increasing retry intervals, > # starting at 1 hour and increasing each time by a factor of 1.5, up to 16 > # hours, then retries every 6 hours until 4 days have passed since the first > # failed delivery. > > # WARNING: If you do not have any retry rules at all (this section of the > # configuration is non-existent or empty), Exim will not do any retries of > # messages that fail to get delivered at the first attempt. The effect will > # be to treat temporary errors as permanent. Therefore, DO NOT remove this > # retry rule unless you really don't want any retries. > > # Address or Domain Error Retries > # ----------------- ----- ------- > > * * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,6h Run exim such that it runs the queue every 2 minutes and change the retry rule to something which suits you for yahoo.*: yahoo.com * F,6h,6m; G,24h,10m,1.4; F,7d,12h In other words: for yahoo.com, retry every 6 minutes up to 6 hours; after this retry at 10 minutes and then grow the interval by a factor of 1.5 up to 24 hours (giving 13 retries in the next 18 hours); then retry every 6 hours after the first 24 hours up to a maximum of 7 days. You can tune this. Perhaps, by default, Postfix does more (or less?) aggressive retries. Under normal operation I see nothing playing silly beggars with yahoo.* (or hosted domains such as btinternet) but every once in a while they do something that causes swathes of the Internet to get delayed. As an aside, did you contact Yahoo at all about this? Graeme -- ## List details at http://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/
