Sandy & Len,

Thanks to both of you for your comments and recommendations.

I'll think about the best approach for my situation and most likely, move
the extended store and forward off of the IMail server.

George

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 4:35 PM
To: George Kulman
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Forcing Rejects


> 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


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