Graeme Fowler wrote: > 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. >
JFWIW, mine (where a same-workday fail is preferred over a'maybe in 4 days' delivery, so there is time to pick up the phone or send a fax): * * F,10m,2m; G,2h,5m,1.1; F,4h,30m And starting Exim with q55s likewise: auto_thaw = 20m Queue-runners are excluded from logging, lest they fill the disk, with; log_selector = +all -all_parents -queue_run -arguments > 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 > > FWIW, Catalin has sent a tst message through one of my 'uber paranoid' boxen which was found to be sufficently short of bad attributes it could jog under the white line on a motorway w/o raising a bump. Bill -- ## 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/
