> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Hazel [mailto:ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:20 AM
> To: Tom Samplonius
> Cc: Smith, A.D.; exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Timeout during SMTP session
>
>
> 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.
Nope, we've already got that set up.
>
> Alternatively, the poster might have been talking about the SMTP
> timeouts for connecting to a remote host. The default values
> are around
> 5 minutes.
That's the one!
>
> 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.
Excellent, I'll do that, cheers all.
Zed
>
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