minor list changes

Tom Jennings tomj at wps.com
Sat Mar 5 03:25:32 CST 2005


>> 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?



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