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Re: Secondary Mail Server



TonyN writes:
> ...you should just rely on normal SMTP retries.

I wrote: 
> Which many servers no longer do correctly.

Stan writes:
> Standard retry timeout for most MTAs is 5 days.  What exactly do you
> mean by the statement above?

That some organizations ignore the standard and deliberately configure
their servers to give up after a few hours.
-- 
John Hasler


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