On 2/2/20 12:52 PM, Chris Adams via mailop wrote: > Just an idle Sunday question... how long do you have your mail server(s) > configured to queue and retry messages before bouncing them back to the > sender? > > I know back in the day, 5 days was the norm, to handle servers that were > only sometimes connected, outages, etc.
The five-days number is recommended by the RFCs. I always assumed that number was to account for "long weekends." If your server crashes on somebody else's property on Friday, and if Monday is a holiday, you can still get mail that is retried for 5 days. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
