Perhaps rather than hacking the executable, you might want to write a batch to update the "Last-tried:" entry in the DOMAIN.MRI file in the domains subfolder; this would accomplish the same thing.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Guilherme O Lima Rudnitzki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 2:50 PM Subject: RES: Changing default number of tries > Great tip, Randy! > > What string should I look for in SMTPDS.exe? > What new string do you suggest, for making 54 tries last only, say, 12 hours? > > -----Mensagem original----- > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Em nome de Randy Brukardt > Enviada em: quarta-feira, 28 de abril de 2004 16:39 > Para: [email protected] > Assunto: RE: Changing default number of tries > > It's would be possible to patch the IMS executable to use a different delivery schedule. I don't think you can change the 54 tries, > but you could shorten the time needed for them. Indeed, I think I did this so that my gateway server didn't hang onto mail for hours > after the main server was brought back up after maintenance. > > This is easy to do because the delivery schedule is a text string in SMTPDS.exe. Just change it to one of the same length, and you > should be fine. (But if you don't know how to make changes to a binary executable file, I'd suggest not attempting it!) > > Randy. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Guilherme O Lima > > Rudnitzki > > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:03 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Changing default number of tries > > > > > > Hi All. > > > > Back to an old IMS issue: > > > > Is there a REAL way to change the number of tries (54) of IMS to > > something smaller? > > > > The default 54 tries takes too long to complete! The sender will only > > be notified about the problem after 4 DAYS or more... > > > > I've heard about a sequence of numbers hard-coded into SMTPDS that > > defines the retry intervals, but AFAIK nobody could change this to > > something more acceptable. > > > > Regards, > > > > Guilherme Lima > > > > This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. > > To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite > > http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite > > Rock Solid Software (tm) > > > > This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. > To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite > http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite > Rock Solid Software (tm) > > This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. > To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite > http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite > Rock Solid Software (tm) > This is the discussion list for the IMS Free email server software. To unsubscribe send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered by Rockliffe MailSite http://www.rockliffe.com/mailsite Rock Solid Software (tm)
