Email plug meeting

More details would be nice, but the only thing that
I can think of off the top of my head is that if
a particular remote host is down or appears to be
under heavy load, qmail is designed to "be gentle"
to the other side and back off and try again later.

In the past (and probably in the present, too), if
a major mail host went down for say, a day, then
came back online, she would get totally hammered
by remote MTAs trying to send her their queued up
mail all at the same time, thus creating more problems.

Many modern MTAs are more well-behaved.


D

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Diane Barrett wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:19:57 -0700
> From: Diane Barrett <dbarrett@desertdocs.com>
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Email plug meeting
>
> This would be of great interest to me. We are running qmail. It ran fine
> for about 8mos. Now at lest once a week SMTP stops recognizing requests for
> 2-6hrs. then just starts working again. I would be interested in hearing
> from anyone who can help resolve issue. Thanks.
>
> Diane Barrett
> Desert Document Services, Inc.
>
>
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