I actually ran telnet against their mail server: there is no increasing delay.
When the server is not ready, it's called "deferred" and the connection is instantly dropped. But after a few 5-10 subsequent retries with a small interval ~0.2-0.5 sec it is possible to get a good connection. If not successful, then the sequence could be retiried in 10 minutes. But I always got through the first sequence. It's just to put a limit on sequence, say, 10 such retries. --- "Miller, Raul D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > > My point is the statistic like you are giving is not > > the true availability of Y!, but the artifact of > > the retry logic of particular MTA. Y! is always available > > within seconds after a sufficient number of retries. > > I don't think that changing retry timing is a good solution. > > In general, retries are increasingly delayed because > the retry cases include the case where the server > is overloaded. > > -- > Raul __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
