On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, 08:09:03, Sharyn Schmidt wrote: > At the end of last week, we had a major storm and some of our ISP's > equipment got fried, disconnecting us from the Internet for about 24 > hours. > ... > Our internal network was still working fine, so Imail was delivering all > internal mail. However, when trying to send something that would > normally require outbound access, IMAIL was bouncing the message as > undeliverable, within about 10 mins, or less. > ... > My question then, is, why did remote, outgoing email get returned as > undeliverable almost immediately, as opposed to following the 20 > tries/30min interval rules?
My guess would be its DNS related. If it gets a "doesn't exist" response from a DNS query there's no point trying multiple times. > Is this by design? If so, what would be the reasoning here? Suppose you had a typo in the domain name. There's no reason to wait to find that out. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The avalanche has already started, it is too Rod Dorman late for the pebbles to vote." � Ambassador Kosh 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/
