Hello, I just received the following bounce from my exim server:
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: [email protected] SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>: host haig-ee.state.gov [169.253.194.10]: 451 4.3.2 Please try again later: retry timeout exceeded However, this mail was only sent a few minutes ago: # grep state.gov /var/log/exim4/mainlog 2012-06-18 18:44:27 1Sggw6-0002OE-1y SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>: host stimson.state.gov [169.252.4.131]: 451 4.3.2 Please try again later 2012-06-18 18:44:28 1Sggw6-0002OE-1y == [email protected] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-44): SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>: host haig-ee.state.gov [169.253.194.10]: 451 4.3.2 Please try again later 2012-06-18 18:44:29 1Sggw6-0002OE-1y ** [email protected]: retry timeout exceeded I'm using the default retry rule: # exim -brt state.gov Retry rule: * * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,6h; and the retry db says: # exim_dumpdb /var/spool/exim4 retry [...] R:[email protected]:<[email protected]> -44 13133 SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>: host haig-ee.state.gov [169.253.194.10]: 451 4.3.2 Please try again later 13-Jun-2012 17:29:36 18-Jun-2012 18:44:29 19-Jun-2012 00:44:29 * [..] An earlier email to the same address was delivered fine with proper retries: 2012-06-13 17:29:35 1SerNt-0002jb-0R SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>: host stimson.state.gov [169.252.4.131]: 451 4.3.2 Please try again later 2012-06-13 17:29:36 1SerNt-0002jb-0R == [email protected] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-44): SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>: host haig-ee.state.gov [169.253.194.10]: 451 4.3.2 Please try again later 2012-06-13 17:34:11 1SerNt-0002jb-0R == [email protected] routing defer (-51): retry time not reached 2012-06-13 18:04:11 1SerNt-0002jb-0R SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>: host haig-ee.state.gov [169.253.194.10]: 451 4.3.2 Please try again later 2012-06-13 18:04:11 1SerNt-0002jb-0R == [email protected] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-44): SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>: host stimson.state.gov [169.252.4.131]: 451 4.3.2 Please try again later 2012-06-13 18:34:11 1SerNt-0002jb-0R SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<[email protected]>: host haig-ee.state.gov [169.253.194.10]: 451 4.3.2 Please try again later 2012-06-13 18:34:12 1SerNt-0002jb-0R => [email protected] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=stimson.state.gov [169.252.4.131] X=TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 CV=no 2012-06-13 18:34:12 1SerNt-0002jb-0R Completed Can someone explain why this mail was bounced so quickly? Exim 4.71. Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C -- ## List details at https://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/
