>Our mail server will continue trying to send a message 20 times before it >bounces the message back to the sender. This situation is obviously >detrimental when a sender is dealing with a time sensitive subject. I am >considering adjusting the number of attempts to speed up the bounced message. > > > >What number do most people use? Anyone? Beuller?
Ferris Beuller? I know him well, cool guy. I lent him my Ferrari last week, but only for one day. Said he had to go to the doctor. poor guy. I have recently started putting all my IMGate to 2 hours "maximal_queue_ lifetime" with no ill effects. healthy effects: 1. senders see quicker that it didn't go vs waiting 24 hours as I had earlier. 2. before some some high-volume abuser gets detected by my near-real-time, uh, "abuse detectors", he can send a lot of mail, like in one minute, through IMGate to be bounced by the mailbox server as user unknown, then I cut him off at the knees. But the abuser's envelope sender is bogus, so IMGate can't deliver the mailer-daemon bounce mesages and they clog up the disk until queue expiry. With 2 hours as queue lifetime, the deferred mailqueue count stays under typically well under 50 vs many 100's or 1000's when at 24 hours. Just Do It. btw, tell you time-sensitive mail user that he's playing fool's game conducting any time sensitive communications via email. Tell him you and your staff have been reading all his non-encrypted email for national security reasons as requested Ashcroft (for which you can do anything) and that you think he really ought to use the phone for that kind of stuff. Len To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
