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http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=463

Summary: Retry timeout exceeded bug.
Product: Exim
Version: 4.65
Platform: x86
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: bug
Priority: critical
Component: Delivery in general
AssignedTo: ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk
ReportedBy: chris@hiway.st
QAContact: exim-dev@exim.org


In some circunstances, exim rejects the message without retrying to send it or
put it in the queue:

mainlog:2007-02-06 11:12:00 1HEVjT-0003wA-NJ <= original@xxxx
H=rrcs-67-xxx-51-xxx.sw.rr.com (xxxxxxx) [67.78.51.xxxx] P=esmtp S=10518
id=!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAATPipunOGWUCfiYlm70YZc8KAAAAQAAAAJUg3ai6JG02/bsX45m5MVgEAAAAA@xxx.com
T="New" from <xxx@xxxx.com> for xxxx@hughes.net

mainlog:2007-02-06 11:15:09 1HEVjT-0003wA-NJ
inbound.hughes.net.cust.securehostedemail.com [64.97.131.1] Connection timed
out

mainlog:2007-02-06 11:15:09 1HEVjT-0003wA-NJ == xxxxx@hughes.net R=lookuphost
T=remote_smtp defer (110): Connection timed out

mainlog:2007-02-06 11:15:09 1HEVjT-0003wA-NJ ** xxxx@hughes.net: retry timeout
exceeded

mainlog:2007-02-06 11:15:09 1HEVmX-00042f-2l <= <> R=1HEVjT-0003wA-NJ U=mail
P=local S=11340 T="Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender" from <>
for original@xxxx.com

As you can see, the email is rejected after a timeout without even retrying or
put it in the queue for later processing...
sent at 11:12 rejected at 11:15 same day.

happened with exim 4.60 and 4.65

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