Geeze, and I once thought I was being "overly agressive" when I reduced my vendor's sendmail default retry value from 1 hour to 5 minutes. LOL
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David F. Skoll Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Aggressive mailers On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Jon R. Kibler wrote: > Yesterday a mailer went amok when trying to get a mail through to > our server. It was tempfailed by the greylist as it should, but > instead of waiting for awhile before trying again it retried 886 times > in 10 minutes (after witch it was let though by the greylist). > What you describe is not uncommon. Sympatico (a Canadian ISP) also has a rather aggressive retry schedule. Magma (another Canadian ISP) goes to the other extreme, and seems to retry only every 12 hours! Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang