Mailing List Archive: Limit on the MX's tried?

Limit on the MX's tried?

Jun 27, 2002, 4:54 AM

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Afternoon all,

Got a problem with emails through to a domain which has something like
10 MX records, the first five of which are refusing connections, the
backend ones appear to be reachable.

Exim is reporting that it's trying the first five and then defering the
connection. Is there a limit on the number of MXs which are tried (or
resolved?)

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Re: Limit on the MX's tried? [ In reply to ]

ollie at uk

Jun 27, 2002, 5:50 AM

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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 12:54:57PM +0100, Mark Lowes wrote:
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> Afternoon all,
>
> Got a problem with emails through to a domain which has something like
> 10 MX records, the first five of which are refusing connections, the
> backend ones appear to be reachable.
>
> Exim is reporting that it's trying the first five and then defering the
> connection. Is there a limit on the number of MXs which are tried (or
> resolved?)

Try the hosts_try_max option.

Ollie

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Re: Limit on the MX's tried? [ In reply to ]

ollie at uk

Jun 27, 2002, 5:54 AM

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On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:50:23PM +0100, Ollie Cook wrote:
> Try the hosts_try_max option.

Or rather hosts_max_try.

Ol.

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Re: Limit on the MX's tried? [ In reply to ]

chad+exim at shire

Jun 27, 2002, 6:06 AM

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On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 07:54 , Mark Lowes wrote:

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> Afternoon all,
>
> Got a problem with emails through to a domain which has something like
> 10 MX records, the first five of which are refusing connections, the
> backend ones appear to be reachable.
>

Is this hotmail?

OT: I got an "out of memory" message as a response from one of their mx
servers :-) Must be that Windows thing...

Chad

Re: Limit on the MX's tried? [ In reply to ]

hamster at korenwolf

Jun 27, 2002, 7:32 AM

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On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 13:54, Ollie Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:50:23PM +0100, Ollie Cook wrote:
> > Try the hosts_try_max option.
>
> Or rather hosts_max_try.

:) That's what I'm looking for, many thanks. (and in answer to the
other question in the thread no it wasn't hotmail :)

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