Re: [exim] Diagnosing delay in retrying

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Author: Jeremy Harris
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Diagnosing delay in retrying
On 10/01/2009 08:56 PM, Paul Warren wrote:
> 2. Does setting route_data to an A record with multiple IPs achieve
> the redundancy I'm looking for? As far as I can tell, exim makes no
> attempt to fall back on the second IP after the connection failure: it
> hadn't seen a connection failure on the other IP for around 3 hours
> prior to going into "won't send any mail" mode.


I think it probably doesn't do what you want; it does a single DNS
lookup and tries one address. Could you use route_list with
a dnsdb lookup and a string-edit to convert newlines to colons?

Cheers,
     Jeremy