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diff --git a/network/exim/manpages/exinext.8 b/network/exim/manpages/exinext.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..25f84d204f --- /dev/null +++ b/network/exim/manpages/exinext.8 @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- +.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps +.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection +.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) +.TH EXINEXT 8 "March 26, 2003" +.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. +.\" +.\" Some roff macros, for reference: +.\" .nh disable hyphenation +.\" .hy enable hyphenation +.\" .ad l left justify +.\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins +.\" .nf disable filling +.\" .fi enable filling +.\" .br insert line break +.\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines +.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) +.\" \(oqthis text is enclosed in single quotes\(cq +.\" \(lqthis text is enclosed in double quotes\(rq +.SH NAME +exinext \- Finding individual retry times +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B exinext +.I address|message-id + +.SH DESCRIPTION +A utility called +.B 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 +.B 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 +.B 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). +.B exinext +is not particularly efficient, but then it isn't expected to be run very often. + +.SH 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. + +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR exim (8) + +.SH 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). |