> I run my IMail server with a very high number (240 with a 30 minute > Queue Timer) of attempts before returning mail to the sender.
I have yet to see a situation where a client is better-served by having mail backed up for 5 days awaiting action than by having their correspondents know (eek!) that their systems have experienced an unexpected failure. You're trying to be all things to all of your clients from a single server, which given IMail's global queue settings may be unreasonable. You could, for instance, run MS SMTP on the same server with a long queue lifetime and do your mailbagging there, then greatly reduce the lifetime of "everyday" failures in the IMail queue. Like Len, I think 2 hours is reasonable given the expectations of the average end user (a compromise between unattended retries and user liability). If you want to stick with a single daemon, at least try lowering it to 1 day, then, as a situation demands, DEcrease the "T" parameter in relevant messages. -Sandy 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/
