5 Mar
2005
5 Mar
'05
1:25 a.m.
> 2) I changed the max time in queue for any message
(outbound) to 35
> minutes. This means the server will try to send email to you once, then
> again 30 minutes later, and then it will just give up on you.
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
NOT GOOD!! Please consult sendmail RFCs and best
practices. That is not
standard practice and will result in a lot of people not getting email.
Should I lose email if my ISP messes up routing for 2 hours? RFC states four
days!
I concur, this may turn out to be a mistake. There are all sorts
of reasonable reasons mailservers can be or appear to be down for
hours/days.
What precisely is the problem you're addressing? I assume it's
queue size and cpu cycles?