On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 01:26:54PM +0100, Cyborg via Exim-users wrote: > No idea how exim interally handles this, but exim does not seem to be > flexibel enough to react on dynamic changes in the environment.This is bad > luck, because freezing the mail in the queue is exactly there to wait for > things to change ;) (i.e. an external mx become online again )
No, "frozen" mails are waiting for human attention. They should be handled manually. It is documented in several places, in particular: [ https://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-how_exim_receives_and_delivers_mail.html ] | "... when a message can neither be delivered to its recipients nor | returned to its sender, the message is marked “frozen” on the spool, | and no more deliveries are attempted. | | An administrator can “thaw” such messages when the problem has been | corrected, and can also freeze individual messages by hand if | necessary. In addition, an administrator can force a delivery error, | causing a bounce message to be sent." [...] So, if you want to keep message in queue with periodic delivery attempts, you should avoid situations which Exim cosiders as "permanent delivery failure" and put message to "frozen" state. -- Eugene Berdnikov -- ## 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/
