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how long is mail kept in the queue?

aza2001 over 10 years ago

Hi all. Really simple question...

How long is mail kept I'm the queue? And how often does it retry?

Seems as though I am missing approx 24hrs of emails.

I can see it all in the mail manager being received and forwarded but the exchange server never gets it (even though emails I have just sent comes through)

I just want to double check this setting

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0 Billybob over 10 years ago
You can try restarting exim from command line
/var/mdw/scripts/smtp restart

Otherwise to answer your question...
From the exim conf file
gatekeeper:/var/storage/chroot-smtp/etc # cat exim.conf

The retry time is
# --- Retry section ------------------------------------------------------
begin retry

* * F,2h,2m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,3d,6h

It retries every 2 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. I maybe wrong but this is what it looks like to me.
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0 Billybob over 10 years ago
You can try restarting exim from command line
/var/mdw/scripts/smtp restart

Otherwise to answer your question...
From the exim conf file
gatekeeper:/var/storage/chroot-smtp/etc # cat exim.conf

The retry time is
# --- Retry section ------------------------------------------------------
begin retry

* * F,2h,2m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,3d,6h

It retries every 2 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. I maybe wrong but this is what it looks like to me.
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