This probably is better posted to the qmail mailing list, but I can't seem to get to cr.yp.to right now and I'm not on the list at this time...
Is there any (known) way to force qmail to immediately requeue a message upon delivery deferral rather than having it wait until the next send time? I just finished a qmail patch that allows a limit on the number of concurrent attempts made to any given IP address (well, any given hash - there's only so many semaphores I'm willing to create :)). This allows mail to continue processing on high-volume servers without bogging down because a remote server (e.g., AOL or YAHOO) is throttling or just too busy to accept more than 8-10 connections from a single server at once. The patch will cause that MX IP to be skipped and the next one in line to be tried - if no MX is reachable it defers the mesage. However, in that case I would like to force qmail to immediately retry the message as the deferral was on the local system rather than cause by the remote system. After looking at how qmail runs its queue, I don't think there's a way to do it, but I figured I'd throw the question out anyway. I'll be making the patch available at some point in the future once I've tested it some more... Josh -- Joshua Megerman SJGames MIB #5273 - OGRE AI Testing Division You can't win; You can't break even; You can't even quit the game. - Layman's translation of the Laws of Thermodynamics [EMAIL PROTECTED]
