Bug#581694: exim4: change to retry time has no effect

[Mark Hedges]

Package: exim4
Version: 4.71-4
Severity: normal


I edited /etc/exim4/conf.d/retry/30_exim4-config to this:

*                      *           F,15m,30s; F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,6h

and QUEUEINTERVAL = '30s' in /etc/default/exim4.

With the laptop connection down, I send `mail -v`.  It cannot connect
to my smarthost, so mail is properly deferred in the local queue.

Then I connect to the internet.

However, subsequent queue runs do not send the message within 30 seconds
like these settings would seem to indicate.  I cannot send new messages either.

  R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host

If I `rm /var/spool/exim4/db/*`, then the next queue run sends all mail.

My usual scenario on my laptop is, I hit send (or use reportbug) and
forget that I was not connected.  Then I connect and I want it to go
out promptly so I don't have to wait for 2 hours.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks.

Mark


-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.71 #1 built 25-Mar-2010 17:35:04
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2007
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.8.26: (December 18, 2009)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
GnuTLS compile-time version: 2.8.6
GnuTLS runtime version: 2.8.6
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to generate
# exim configuration macros for the configuration file.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='satellite'
dc_other_hostnames='maggie.scriptdolphin.org'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost='maggie.scriptdolphin.org'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='127.0.0.5::2525'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
mailname:maggie.scriptdolphin.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.32     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-base                    4.71-4     support files for all Exim MTA (v4
ii  exim4-daemon-light            4.71-4     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon

exim4 recommends no packages.

exim4 suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  exim4/drec: