NAME

       exinext - Finding individual retry times

SYNOPSIS

       exinext address|message-id

DESCRIPTION

       A  utility called exinext (mostly a Perl script) provides the ability to fish specific information out of
       the retry database.  Given a mail domain (or a complete address), it looks up the hosts for that  domain,
       and  outputs any retry information for the hosts or for the domain.  At present, the retry information is
       obtained by running exim_dumpdb (see below) and processing the output.  For example:

         exinext piglet@milne.fict.example
         kanga.milne.fict.example:192.168.8.1 error 146: Connection refused
           first failed: 21-Feb-1996 14:57:34
           last tried:   21-Feb-1996 14:57:34
           next try at:  21-Feb-1996 15:02:34
         roo.milne.fict.example:192.168.8.3 error 146: Connection refused
           first failed: 20-Jan-1996 13:12:08
           last tried:   21-Feb-1996 11:42:03
           next try at:  21-Feb-1996 19:42:03
           past final cutoff time

       You can also give exinext a local part, without a domain, and it will give any retry information for that
       local part in your default domain.  A message id can be used to obtain retry information pertaining to  a
       specific  message.   This  exists  only  when  an attempt to deliver a message to a remote host suffers a
       message-specific error (see section 42.2).  exinext is not particularly  efficient,  but  then  it  isn't
       expected to be run very often.

BUGS

       This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff than us and has more experience in
       writing manual pages, any patches would be greatly appreciated.

SEE ALSO

       exim(8), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/

AUTHOR

       This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>,
       for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                                                 March 26, 2003                                       EXINEXT(8)