>From an ancient message:
>There is an easy to locate string (at offset about 26AD4):
>10:F,10:F,100:F,10:F,10:F,100:F,10:F,10:F,100:F,10:F,10:F,
>100:F,10:F,10:F,100:F,10:F,10:F,100:F,10:F,10:T,220:F,10:F,
>10:F,220:F,10:F,10:F,220:F,10:F,10:F,220:F,10:F,10:F,220:F,
>10:F,10:F,220:F,10:F,10:T,460:F,10:F,10:F,460:F,10:F,10:F,
>460:F,10:F,10:T,1420:F,10:F,10:F,1420:F,10:F,10:F
It's a list of numbers (minutes between retries) in decimal. No one seems to
know what the T and F are for. Someone wrote a script years ago and verified
that the schedule matches the numbers above. But I didn't find anything
about anyone changing it.
The total of the whole list is the number of minutes in just under 5 days.
If you want less, just decrease the largest numbers until the total is
smaller. Note that the largest numbers toward the end of the list would be
the easiest to accomplish that with.
Looking at my machine, I did in fact look at changing this string, but I
never actually did it. So if you do, please report the results to the group.
(It would be a useful tool to add to Trash Finder if you can in fact change
this list.) [It's conceivable that filling the empty space with nulls would
also work, so that you might be able to shorten it that way.]
Randy.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Guilherme O Lima
> Rudnitzki
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 2:50 PM
> To: [email protected]
> 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
> >
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