On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 at 15:12:55 +1100, Lauchlin Wilkinson wrote: > Hi, > > what are peoples thoughts on the length of time mail should sit in the > mail queue? Due to the rise in the amount of spam and viruses that > seems to be going around lately I throttled back the delivery warning > back to 30 minutes and the delivery failure back to 12 hours. My logic > is that most people these days expect e-mail to be pretty instant so to > have mail sitting in a queue for 7 days and not getting a warning for > several hours seems a bit old fashioned. So far 12 hours and 30 > minutes seems to be working well. What are other people doing? >
Just a note: I have noticed that sending warnings about messages waiting in the queue causes problems with e.g. mailing lists - users get removed from mailing lists by list manager programs which treat warnings as errors. -- Tomasz Papszun SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland | And it's only [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/ | ones and zeros.