Sorry if this is OT. My hosting service is migrating our VPS to new
hardware. I plan to shut down postfix (it's just me and the missus) and
create a snapshot prior to the shutdown.
How long do servers try to resend email if your server is temporarily down?
The host has given themselves an 8 hour o
How long do servers try to resend email if your server is temporarily down?
The host has given themselves an 8 hour overnight window.
The default retry for postfix is 5 days.
http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#bounce_queue_lifetime
Ian Evans:
> Sorry if this is OT. My hosting service is migrating our VPS to new
> hardware. I plan to shut down postfix (it's just me and the missus) and
> create a snapshot prior to the shutdown.
>
> How long do servers try to resend email if your server is temporarily down?
> The host has given
On Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 1:00 PM Wietse Venema, wrote:
>
> > How long do servers try to resend email if your server is temporarily
> down?
> > The host has given themselves an 8 hour overnight window.
>
> "It depends". There is a difference between wat rules say (in this
> case https://www.rfc-edit