On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
> I see this happen from time to time and I don't understand why. For some
> reason a message which is sent out will get stuck. If this person was in the
> middle of the list of recipients, everyone after him would be waiting for
> mail. As it stands this is a mailing list that has 22 members (he's the
> 22nd). The other 21 were delivered in under 30 seconds (nice for my 5K of
> bandwidth, eh?). Is there anyway to reduce the timeout on these? Is there a
> timeout?
(1) Timeouts for SMTP delivery are all defined in the smtp transport. The
defaults are in accordance with the recommendations in RFC 821.
(2) If you set remote_max_parallel greater than 1, then several remote
deliveries will take place simultaneously. If one gets delayed because
of a very slow connection, the others will still carry on.
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