We have a very busy mail server so I set it to 4 hours, when I used the default we had a mailq of over 200 everyday which slowed our performance. So it will keep trying to send it for 4 hours then it gets bounced.
-----Original Message----- From: Larry Stone [mailto:lston...@stonejongleux.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 4:17 PM To: Goodman, William Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: RE: [Mailman-Users] Is There a list member limitation? On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Goodman, William wrote: > I see things like below to users I know didn't receive the email. So you > first assessment is correct > "they did receive it but they just can't find it. Uh no, the message below is a deferral. Postfix keeps retrying until it times out at which point is bounced. How long until it times out is a site configurable length of time (default five days, I think). > to=<u...@somewhere.com>, relay=mail.somewhere.com[212.137.44.179]:25, > delay=8.3, delays=0.02/4.4/0.67/3.3, dsn=4.0.0, status=deferred (host > mail.somewhere.com[212.137.44.179] said: 451 <u...@somewhere.com>... > Requested mail action not taken: mailbox unavailable (in reply to RCPT > TO command)) Jan 13 15:25:00 my-mailserver postfix/smtp[28262]: > B405E2D858F -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
