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21 exinext \- Finding individual retry times
29 (mostly a Perl script) provides the ability to fish specific information
30 out of the retry database.
31 Given a mail domain (or a complete address), it looks up the hosts for
32 that domain, and outputs any retry information for the hosts or for the
34 At present, the retry information is obtained by running
36 (see below) and processing the output.
39 exinext piglet@milne.fict.example
40 kanga.milne.fict.example:192.168.8.1 error 146: Connection refused
41 first failed: 21-Feb-1996 14:57:34
42 last tried: 21-Feb-1996 14:57:34
43 next try at: 21-Feb-1996 15:02:34
44 roo.milne.fict.example:192.168.8.3 error 146: Connection refused
45 first failed: 20-Jan-1996 13:12:08
46 last tried: 21-Feb-1996 11:42:03
47 next try at: 21-Feb-1996 19:42:03
48 past final cutoff time
52 a local part, without a domain, and it will give any retry information for
53 that local part in your default domain.
54 A message id can be used to obtain retry information pertaining to a
56 This exists only when an attempt to deliver a message to a remote host
57 suffers a message-specific error (see section 42.2).
59 is not particularly efficient, but then it isn't expected to be run very often.
62 This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff
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64 would be greatly appreciated.
68 /usr/share/doc/exim4\-base/
71 This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by
72 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>,
73 for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).