A simple question

Gareth list-mailscanner at linguaphone.com
Wed Jun 13 13:15:19 IST 2007


On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 12:14, Alexandros Fragkiadakis wrote:
> hi,
> 
> when postfix tries to send an email to a remote smtp server and if this
> server is not online, postfix defers the mail. How long does it try to
> communicate with that remote server?
> 
> Thanks.

The default is to keep retrying for about 3-4 days however you can
change the time in the configuration file.



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