Limiting scheduler retries...

[David Potter <potter@csuite.ns.ca>]

We're regularly getting large numbers of local retries that are failing
because of quota problems.

We're loging to syslog with the following entry typical:

===== Syslog ===========================
Jul 13 00:02:58 halifax mailbox[16493]: S.pe.pv42981: 
to=<az999@chebucto.ns.ca>, delay=25:50:31, xdelay=00:00:00, 
mailer=local, stat=retryat +3600 header write to "/var/mail/az999"
failed
========================================

Other entries for S.pe.pv42981 show the following retries...

        	Interval		
		hh:mm
12:02:58 AM		delay=25:50:31	
01:58:42 AM	01:55	delay=27:46:15	
02:03:00 AM	00:04	delay=27:50:33	
03:02:59 AM	00:59	delay=28:50:32	
04:03:02 AM	01:00	delay=29:50:35	
05:03:05 AM	01:00	delay=30:50:38	
06:03:01 AM	00:59	delay=31:50:34	
07:07:59 AM	01:04	delay=32:55:32	
08:52:59 AM	01:45	delay=34:40:32	
09:23:38 AM	00:30	delay=35:11:11	
11:43:08 AM	02:19	delay=37:30:41	
01:26:24 PM	01:43	delay=39:13:57	

This does not seem to correspond to what we're hoping to get 
from scheduler.conf

<snip>

local/*
        interval=5m
        idlemax=9m
        expiry=3d
        retries="1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 144"

<end snip>


Note... prior to July 10 we were not specifying retries for local/*


thanks for any enlightenment... ;-)

david potter