Re: [Mailman-Users] Fwd: Yahoo, AOL again

[Mark Sapiro]

On 11/18/18 4:46 PM, Jim Dory wrote:

> So looking at the EXIM config on the host VPS server, there is a
> Section:RETRYSTART that is blank, A RETRYBLOCK that has this:
> 
>  +secondarymx   *   F,4h,5m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,8h
> *  *   F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,8h
> 
> And a RETRYEND which is blank. So I suppose the RETRYBLOCK is where the
> edit would go.


I don't think you need any changes here. I'm not sure what the
+secondarymx entry matches, but the default

*  *   F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,8h

says retry every 15 minutes for 2 hours, then at intervals starting at
one hour and increasing by a factor of 1.5 until 16 hours have passed,
then every 6 hours up to 4 days, after which if the message is still not
delivered, it is bounced.

This is a common strategy and should be OK.

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[Mailman-Users] Fwd: Yahoo, AOL again

[Jim Dory]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 1:48 PM Mark Sapiro  wrote:

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> The Yahoo page at 
> has some tips. You may need to adjust the retry strategy of your MTA.
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>
So looking at the EXIM config on the host VPS server, there is a
Section:RETRYSTART that is blank, A RETRYBLOCK that has this:

 +secondarymx   *   F,4h,5m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,8h
*  *   F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,8h

And a RETRYEND which is blank. So I suppose the RETRYBLOCK is where the
edit would go. This server is basically just handling the mailman list,
plus some very small traffic from server reports, website stuff (very
rare), and other stuff not worth mentioning. So a couple attempts in case
some server or service is down somewhere temporarily.. but otherwise I
hardly think it should be trying for what looks like 4 days, if this is
what I'm correctly seeing. Any one have thoughts on how to edit, given that
qualification?/jim
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