On 6 April 2020 19:25:13 CEST, Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> wrote: >On 4/6/20 1:19 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> I have missed emails coming from mailing lists, this one for example, >due to no retries. >> The proof for that is that I got replies to emails I never received. >> > >That doesn't prove that the server never retried, it proves that you >didn't receive one particular message that was sent from the list. The >most common reason for that is that your spam filter blocked the >original message, but not the reply. Retries only happen for 4xx errors >(like "connection timed out," when the server is down) and not for 5xx >errors (like "this is spam, go away").
The messages were missing due to the MX being unavailable for a short period. Retries were not attempted as I would have received them. The spam filter is configured with certain mailing lists whitelisted. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
