There is no real standard, other than the "standards" that the software vendor uses for their own products. 24-72 hours typically as other people have indicated.
-- ME2 On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:41 AM, James Kerr <cluster...@gmail.com> wrote: > Quick question.. > > Does anyone know if there is a standard amount of time that a mail server > is usually set to keep retrying to deliver email in the event the > destenation server is not responding? Our exchange box was down over the > weekend from Friday evening until now, due to enviromental issues [1] and we > seem to be missing a lot of mail that I was kind of expecting to start > coming in this morning. > > James > > [1] Our AC system is a piece of crap. > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist > --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
