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.

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