On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:31:49AM -0500, Steve Woolley wrote:
> I am planning to use smtproutes to route email from a qmail server
> to an internal Microsoft Exchange 5.5 server.
> If the Exchange server goes down for a period of time, will the
> qmail server cache (for lack of a better word) the routed emails
> locally until the Exchange server comes back up? or will the
> qmail server bounce the email back (after a given amount of time)?
It will keep retrying for upto a week (with growing intervals). After
that week, it will bounce the mail.
Read up on queuelifetime in man qmail-send to see how to increase that
period even more.
Greetz, Peter.
