Hi,
Suggestion for the wish list?
As some of the EMail recipients I relay for infrequently dial-up,
their mail can be held in the queue for some time (especially over
holidays etc). I think it's important that the sender knows that the
mail has not been received so I set a fairly low value on
delay_warning.
The problem is that this is inflexible and causes a large number of
warnings to be sent to the sender. I would like to be able to
specify:
(1) delay_warning_initial t1
(2) delay_warning_max t2
(3) delay_warning_increment t3
(4) delay_warning_total t4
The first warning message n is sent with delay d=t1. 0<=n<=t4. t4
is intended as a safety mechanism.
Subsequent warning messages are sent with delay d=t(n-1)+t3 until
t(n)>=t2 and the message times-out, t4 is reached or is delivered.
For instance:
delay_warning_initial=4h
delay_warning_max=72h
delay_warning_increment=8h
delay_warning_total=6
Causes warnings to be sent with relative delays 4h, 12h, 20h, 28h,
36h, 42h ... 72h
Perhaps some form of non-linear scheme would be more suitable?
Does this approach sound (at all) sensible?
Thanks,
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Dave Haywood.
liaison@???
