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| 20 | .SH NAME |
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| 21 | exinext \- Finding individual retry times |
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| 22 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 23 | .B exinext |
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| 24 | .I address|message-id |
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| 25 | |
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| 26 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| 27 | A utility called |
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| 28 | .B exinext |
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| 29 | (mostly a Perl script) provides the ability to fish specific information |
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| 30 | out of the retry database. |
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| 31 | Given a mail domain (or a complete address), it looks up the hosts for |
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| 32 | that domain, and outputs any retry information for the hosts or for the |
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| 33 | domain. |
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| 34 | At present, the retry information is obtained by running |
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| 35 | .B exim_dumpdb |
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| 36 | (see below) and processing the output. |
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| 37 | For example: |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | exinext piglet@milne.fict.example |
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| 40 | kanga.milne.fict.example:192.168.8.1 error 146: Connection refused |
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| 41 | first failed: 21-Feb-1996 14:57:34 |
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| 42 | last tried: 21-Feb-1996 14:57:34 |
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| 43 | next try at: 21-Feb-1996 15:02:34 |
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| 44 | roo.milne.fict.example:192.168.8.3 error 146: Connection refused |
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| 45 | first failed: 20-Jan-1996 13:12:08 |
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| 46 | last tried: 21-Feb-1996 11:42:03 |
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| 47 | next try at: 21-Feb-1996 19:42:03 |
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| 48 | past final cutoff time |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | You can also give |
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| 51 | .B exinext |
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| 52 | a local part, without a domain, and it will give any retry information for |
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| 53 | that local part in your default domain. |
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| 54 | A message id can be used to obtain retry information pertaining to a |
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| 55 | specific message. |
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| 56 | This exists only when an attempt to deliver a message to a remote host |
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| 57 | suffers a message-specific error (see section 42.2). |
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| 58 | .B exinext |
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| 59 | is not particularly efficient, but then it isn't expected to be run very often. |
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| 60 | |
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| 61 | .SH BUGS |
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| 62 | This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff |
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| 63 | than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches |
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| 64 | would be greatly appreciated. |
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| 65 | |
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| 66 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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| 67 | .BR exim (8), |
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| 68 | /usr/share/doc/exim4\-base/ |
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| 69 | |
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| 70 | .SH AUTHOR |
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| 71 | This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by |
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| 72 | Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>, |
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| 73 | for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). |
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