No you don't. You have number of retries set to 60. You have minutes set to
240, an un-allowed number.

John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You

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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of imail
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 5:02 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Problems with SMTP retry settings
> 
> And as I pointed out - I have it set for 60.
> 
> Lee
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Tolmachoff (Lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 1:58 AM
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Problems with SMTP retry settings
> 
> 
> As Rick pointed out, maximum time in the retry timer is 120 minutes.
> 
> John Tolmachoff
> Engineer/Consultant/Owner
> eServices For You
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of imail
> > Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:38 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Problems with SMTP retry settings
> >
> > 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
> > > >
> > >
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