On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Tom Samplonius wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Smith, A.D. wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to set the timout on the first delivery attempt to a
> > different value to that of subsequent delivery attempts (for those of us who
> > wish to speed up queues)?
>
> I assume you are talking about deliveries to the same host? If so, that
> is already done via the retry database. In fact, if the retry database
> indicates that e-mail to a domain has recently failed, it won't even try
> subsequent deliveries until the retry hold period has passed.
Alternatively, the poster might have been talking about the SMTP
timeouts for connecting to a remote host. The default values are around
5 minutes.
You could implement this by having two different smtp transports, with
different timeout values. Then use a setting such as
transport = ${if first_delivery{smtp_one}{smtp_two}}
to switch between them. Or possibly use the queue_running condition
instead of first_delivery.
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