Exim - retry time not reached for any host

[Daniel Lysfjord]

On 22.06.2020 08:58, Daniel Lysfjord via freebsd-questions wrote:
> On 21.06.2020 23:33, Mike Clarke wrote:
>> On Saturday, 20 June 2020 01:07:04 BST Daniel Lysfjord via 
>> freebsd-questions wrote:
>>> On 19.06.2020 17:57, Mike Clarke wrote:
>>> [..]
>>>
>>>> So it looks very much like the problem lies somewhere in my system even
>>>> though there's been no changes made recently. I'd appreciate 
>>>> suggestions
>>>> on how I should go about tracing and fixing the cause of this problem.
>>>
>>> Have you tried to start exim with "-bd -d+all" to get some debug output?
>>
>>
>> OK, I've done that now and it's highlighted what's happening, though 
>> I'm not sure if it helps to
>> explain why;
>>
>>
>> To summarise it looks like the SSL connection fails but eventually 
>> succeeds after a number of
>> retries although the delay could be an hour or more.
>>
>>
>> As a workaround I've reverted exim from 4.94 to 4.93.0.4 which does 
>> not appear to suffer from this
>> problem.
>> [..]
> 
> Can't see anything wrong with that part of the config. The exim4 
> changelog between 4.93 and 4.94 is quite long, and many things have 
> changed. You could try to bisect, of course.
> 
> Did 4.94 fail to connect every time, or was it sporadic?

To clarify: did 4.94 fail to connect every time on a *new* email?