Re: Fix for qmail-remote process hanging on Linux (and possibly o ther s)

[Alex Pennace]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 12:04:50PM +1200, Jason Haar wrote:
> We have exactly the same issue here. Exchange goes down. Mail backs up on
> Qmail servers. Exchange comes back up. USERS ARE TOLD ITS WORKING AGAIN.
> Users then wonder why it takes up to 2 hours for queued mail to get to them.
> USERS COMPLAIN THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG.

qmail will wait up to two hours to deliver a message only if the
message has been sitting in its queue for 11 hours, see
<http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#retry-schedule>. Perhaps you
should fix Exchange so it doesn't go down for 11 hours at a time.