How to set Exim to give up trying...

[chasjs]

periodically a message will not go through to a recipient. It appears like it is usually a "connection timed out" issue. It appears that exim will continue trying until the end of time and also sending warnings to the sender.

I would like to set if up so if the message does not go through within a set amount of time it bounces back to the sender with a message they delivery failed. That is how it is on our other mail servers (non-exim). I have not found the setting looking at the Exim documentation. I did see how you could turn off the warning but that is not what I want.

 

[scsi]

It does bounce back...

At the very bottom of /etc/exim.conf

# RETRY CONFIGURATION
# 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 8 hours until 4 days have passed since the first
# failed delivery.

# Domain Error Retries
# ------ ----- -------
begin retry
* * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,8h

 

[chasjs]

My exim.conf is set exactly like that but we have messages that sit in the queue until we manually delete them and these are way beyond the 4 days. And they continue to sent warnings to the sender.

 

[nobaloney]

Then you should probably investigate why. If you can't find the reason online you might want to ask on the exim-users mailing list.

Jeff

 

[chasjs]

We are investigating why, that is what prompted my post to the board. We have gone over the configuration several times. And also reviewed the Exim online documentation.

I guess it is safe to say this is not normal behavior for Exim.

I will see what I can find out.