James wrote:
> Stephen Allen wrote:
>> Greetings:
>>
>> Yesterday for a 20 hr period, my Bell Canada telephone service was down,
>> hence my DSL connection followed.
>>
>> Since I have come back online, I've noticed that the e-mail I was
>> assuming had gone out to my SMARTHOST, (before I noticed the DSL was
>> down) is now in my Exim4 mailq.
>>
>> I've been grokking the man page, but so far I haven't found a way, to
>> force/tell Exim to send these messages along their merry way.
>
> try exim4 -qff.
> That will force exim to run its queue and ignore retry times and thaw
> frozen messages.
>
> What happens is when exim notices a host is down, it will not try to
> send to that host again until its retry time has passed.
>
BTW I apologize if some of you rec'd some of my e-mail in this thread
directly. Wasn't my intention.
Fellas, in case this helps, the most recent output from
'/var/spool/exim4/msglog' returns this;
2006-09-28 11:18:44 Received from <> R=1GSYWO-0002m9-EP
U=Debian-exim P=local S=1215
2006-09-28 11:18:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_
smarthost defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host
2006-09-28 11:24:45 Remote host gmail-smtp.l.google.com
[72.14.205.109] closed connection in response to MAIL FROM:<>
SIZE=2265
2006-09-28 11:24:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_
smarthost defer (-18): Remote host gmail-smtp.l.google.com
[72.14.205.109] closed connection in response to MAIL FROM:<>
SIZE=2265
How does one force the retry time to now ?
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