[Mimedefang] Aggressive mailers

[Cormack, Ken]

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: mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com
[mailto:mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com]On Behalf Of David
F. Skoll
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 12:14 PM
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
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.
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