Re: Exim-users Digest, Vol 62, Issue 10

[dwessell]

Ted,

Thank you.. Your information pointed me in the right direction. It was
a DNS issue, and now all is resolved.

There was a lot of failed mail, that was delivered to the local user.
Is it possible for that email to be resent?

Thanks
David

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> From: Ted Cooper <eximX0902w@...>
> To: exim-users@...
> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:41:37 +1000
> Subject: Re: [exim] re try time not reached for any host after a long failure period
> dwessell wrote:
>> I have a machine running exim4 in my network. It has a public IP, and a
>> private IP. It generates email from a VOIP system, and relays it to an
>> exchange server in the network.
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>> However, no emails go out.. They all have the error message:
>>
>> retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period
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>> . I can ping the mail server. I can send mail via telnet. Can someone point
>> me in the right direction?
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> distribution. If you need help specific to configuration of
> exim4-daemon-* you are best off using the information in
> /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz
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> If you're not using the packaged version, or know how to manually
> configure exim you could probably look into the following:
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> Figure out where exim is actually trying to send the email and how it is
> trying to deliver it (probably via the internet and published MX records)
>  exim -bt address@...
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> Run a delivery of one of the messages in debug mode (this will tell you
> every error message and how it does everything, you just have to be able
> to interpret it)
>  exim -d+all -M message-id
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> Do a full SMTP conversation with the exchange box to make sure it is
> actually accepting mail from the exim ip address - a simple telnet only
> tells you there is TCP capability from whatever user you're logged in as
> on the default outgoing interface.
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> Make sure that exim is using the correct interface to send the email.
> Sending from a public IP address to a private IP address will mean the
> target machine will return the packets via its default gateway and
> perhaps get munged, dropped or NAT'd on the way.
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> From: dwessell <dave@...>
> To: exim-users@...
> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:42:01 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: [exim] re try time not reached for any host after a long failure period
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a machine running exim4 in my network. It has a public IP, and a
> private IP. It generates email from a VOIP system, and relays it to an
> exchange server in the network.
>
> However, no emails go out.. They all have the error message:
>
> retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period
>
> . I can ping the mail server. I can send mail via telnet. Can someone point
> me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks
> David
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On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:56 -0400, David Wessell wrote:
> Thank you.. Your information pointed me in the right direction. It was
> a DNS issue, and now all is resolved.
>
> There was a lot of failed mail, that was delivered to the local user.
> Is it possible for that email to be resent?

Good to hear.

Exim can't be triggered to resend emails once they have been delivered,
however if the emails bounced to the local user are still complete you
should be able to extract the original email and locally submit it
again. If they were delivered locally to mbox format you'll have to
split email email out into its own file. Maildir will have a single file
for each email.

So for each mail, chop of the top of it to get the original back and
then

cat original-email | exim -bm -t

-bm - accept new message on standard input
-t - pull recipients from to: cc: bcc: headers

A list of all the command line arguments:
http://docs.exim.org/current/spec_html/ch05.html

You'll get a few extra headers from doing that but the email will
otherwise be unharmed.

If the bounce message doesn't contain all of the original message then
that information is lost forever.

Hope it helps

Ted

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