On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 07:52:22AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> First off, please don't start a brand-new topic by replying to an
> existing thread. It messes up the threading in our MUAs, and more
> importantly, messes up the list archives as well.
You completely lost me there. Where's the context for this complaint?
[quoted on top and completely, intentionally]
> Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My timeoutremote was the default of 20 minutes waiting for a response
> > from the mail server. This seems excessive to me. I would like to
> > lower it to between 1 to 5 minutes so I don't have a bunch of
> > qmail-remote processes loitering doing nothing.
> >
> > Is there any reason the default is so high at 20 minutes?
>
> 20 minutes helps to ensure reliability on lesser networks. If you want
> to lower some of the timeouts, that's fine -- but remember that RFC2821
> section 4.5.3.2 states the minimum values you should use, and some are
> as high as 10 minutes.
>
> Charles
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Greetz, Peter
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