Problems with mail generated locally

[Nick Phillips]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 12:28:50AM +0200, Henrik Lewander wrote:
> lewander.com is in the local domains in exim_outgoing.conf, yes. I don't
> think it has something to do with the outgoing exim at all because the mail
> bounces immediately, it doesn't wait for the exim outgoing queue run.

You aren't clearing your retry db. Have a look at the web page documenting
Exim installation again, and look for exim_tidydb.

This won't bite until you have a message that for whatever reason has been
sitting in the queue for longer than your retry timeout, so I didn't notice
it for a while (I have usually have a (very) long retry timeout).

Oh, you should also make sure that you're not trying to deliver messages from
the incoming queue from any lingering cron jobs (with debian, for example,
even when you are running exim as daemons with a daemon queue-running every
so often, there is still a cron job to queue-run every 15 min, which you
need/want to disable).

Essentially this problem arises because exim treats even the explicit forced
defer as a delivery failure, and notes this accordingly in the retry db.

I'm hoping Exim 4 will have a neater way of "not delivering anything" once
I get round to trying it.



Cheers,


Nick
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