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

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Exim issue most likely due to a corrupt Exim db.

Symptom:

Bounced emails with the message:

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

Solution:

For cPanel:

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

For Linux:

/usr/sbin/exim_tidydb -t 1d /var/spool/exim retry > /dev/null
/usr/sbin/exim_tidydb -t 1d /var/spool/exim reject > /dev/null
/usr/sbin/exim_tidydb -t 1d /var/spool/exim wait-remote_smtp > /dev/null
/scripts/courierup -- force
/scripts/eximup --force