Are you cycling the SMTP and Queue manager services after you make the changes? You need to in order for them to take
Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "imail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 11:07 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] SMTP Retry Timeout not working... > We have our SMTP retry timer set as follows: > > Retry time (in minutes): 60 > Retries before returning to sender: 240 > > Now technically this means that messages should be bounced 240 hours after > they are originally sent. In reality however it takes about 2.5 hours (the > reason it's set to 240 is because it only takes a few minutes if it's set > lower). We do not have a mail gateway server set up or configured. > > It doesn't seem to matter what we set the retry timer to - it's ignored. > 240 minutes after the send the message bounces. This is kind of a pain for > outgoing messages, but it's even more of a pain for ETRN users where > occasionally their server might be down for a couple of hours (T is down, or > SDSL or whatever) and the mail starts bouncing instead of accumulating on > our server as it should. > > Anyone have any ideas? Have we inadvertently set some other setting that > disables the timer? > > Cheers and thanks in advance for any help, > Lee > > > > 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/
