In addition to "long weekends", I would add "natural disasters".
As I recall the 5-day-rule came in handy during Hurricane Sandy as well... Tony Patti -----Original Message----- From: mailop <mailop-boun...@mailop.org> On Behalf Of Michael Orlitzky via mailop Sent: Sunday, February 2, 2020 1:16 PM To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: Re: [mailop] How long to retry? On 2/2/20 12:52 PM, Chris Adams via mailop wrote: > Just an idle Sunday question... how long do you have your mail > server(s) configured to queue and retry messages before bouncing them > back to the sender? > > I know back in the day, 5 days was the norm, to handle servers that > were only sometimes connected, outages, etc. The five-days number is recommended by the RFCs. I always assumed that number was to account for "long weekends." If your server crashes on somebody else's property on Friday, and if Monday is a holiday, you can still get mail that is retried for 5 days. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
