Yes, except that it's not working that way. Here's evidence: Bounce contents: Delivery failed 240 attempts: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Original message follows. Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 06:05:53 -0500 This bounce was received at: Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:56:48 -0500 As you can see - the elapsed time was barely 8 hours, despite the 240/60 setting. Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Klinge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 1:11 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Problems with SMTP retry settings > > > > > > 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/ > 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/
