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20 | .SH NAME | |
21 | exinext \- Finding individual retry times | |
22 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
23 | .B exinext | |
24 | .I address|message-id | |
25 | ||
26 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
27 | A utility called | |
28 | .B exinext | |
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 | |
33 | domain. | |
34 | At present, the retry information is obtained by running | |
35 | .B exim_dumpdb | |
36 | (see below) and processing the output. | |
37 | For example: | |
38 | ||
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 | |
49 | ||
50 | You can also give | |
51 | .B exinext | |
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 | |
55 | specific message. | |
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). | |
58 | .B exinext | |
59 | is not particularly efficient, but then it isn't expected to be run very often. | |
60 | ||
61 | .SH BUGS | |
62 | This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff | |
63 | than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches | |
64 | would be greatly appreciated. | |
65 | ||
66 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
67 | .BR exim (8), | |
68 | /usr/share/doc/exim4\-base/ | |
69 | ||
70 | .SH AUTHOR | |
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). |