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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