retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period

Retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period

You may be received following error ( retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period ) from the clients who is using Exim mail servers.

 
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

user@domain.com
    retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period

This issue can easily fix by running the following commands:

 
cd /var/spool/exim/db
rm -f retry retry.lockfile
rm -f wait-remote_smtp wait-remote_smtp.lockfile
service exim restart

That’s it!

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