On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Kuyper Hoffman wrote:
>
[...]
> > to force delivery for them. However, I'm not sure if -R overrides
> > retry or defer times....
>
> It overrides for the first message it hits. The assumption is that any
> other messages that are queued for the same host will then get squirted
> down the same TCP/IP connection if the delivery succeeds.
Even if they aren't, because of a batch_max restriction or some other glitch,
the succesful delivery will presumably have cleared the retry database entry
for that host.
Chris Thompson Cambridge University Computing Service,
Email: cet1@??? New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.
