> > Hi, we have iMail version 8.05. Our settings for iMail SMTP > Retry are as > follows: > > Number of retries before returning to sender: 240 > Amount of time (in minutes) between retries: 60 >
This will put your total days to 240 * 60 = 14400 14400 / 60 = 240 240 hours / 24 hours per day would be 10 days.. No? The default Imail is like this Well times to retry before bounce: 20 If the retry timer is set at 30 min. 20 * 30 = 600 600 min / 60 = 10 This would be a total of 10 hours. For 3 days there example is like this: If the retry timer is set to 30 min and you want to Attempt delivery for upto 3 days then The number of retries befor bounce should be 144 144 * 30 = 4320 4320 / 60 = 72 hours 72 hours / 24 hours a day = 3 days Also.. The number of minutes is limited from 10 min to 120 min max. ~Rick > Theoretically this should retry 240 times, 60 minutes apart > before a bounce is generated. In reality the time is more > like 240 minutes (3-4 hours). It actually doesn't matter > what the amount of time in minutes between retries is set to, > which is why we've set the retry to 240 times. > > We'd like to get this to a more reasonable timeframe that > allows retries to occur for a day or so and then phhht. The > reason is that we also route some ETRN traffic through this > SMTP and it bounces messages if the target Exchange server is > down for more than a couple of hours. During the Northeast > blackout for instance hundreds of messages were bounced - > even though our server was up the entire time. The problem > occurs with both normal outgoing emails, and ETRN mails so > it's not related to the fact it's being used for ETRN. > > Is there some setting that's causing iMail to ignore these > retry settings? Am I missing something obvious? > > Thanks in advance, > Lee > ___________________________________________________________________ Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. 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/
