Markus Stumpf writes:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 11:44:10PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
> > Or to put it a different way, you want qmail to recognize and remember
> > those hosts and when one of that host's connections closes, adjust the
> > retry schedule for the next message bound for that host. However, the
> > next message very likely will be retried in five minutes. So why go
> > to all the bother of recognizing and remembering those hosts just to
> > gain five minutes?
>
> While I think you're right in principle there are situations where it
> might be desirable:
> - Mailing-Lists
> - Fault situations
And in neither of those cases is it an improvement to keep banging on
the destination host. If it refuses messages, then by inference it's
overloaded. Much better to wait until it isn't.
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