Kai MacTane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In the case of a failure to deliver, the user will not get *any* warning
> about it until queuelifetime has passed. I think that the option to have
> qmail (or a plug-in or add-on program) deliver a message back to the
> user stating that the message hasn't gone through yet, after an
> admin-configurable length of time (presumably somewhere from 4-24
> hours), would be a useful thing.
Our users constantly reply to such messages saying "please stop trying to
deliver that message." *sigh* Once we switch away from sendmail, I'm
strongly inclined to turn them off. I'd also significantly reduce the
queue lifetime; honestly, if the message can't be delivered in two or
three days, most e-mail users these days seem to have already concluded it
will never get there and get really confused when it comes through.
Our mail server that just sends out bounce messages already has a queue
lifetime of just one day, but that's a special case (a very large number
of those messages will just double-bounce and get silently discarded).
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
