Re: [Exim] Opinions sought: hosts_max_try

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Tabor J. Wells
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Opinions sought: hosts_max_try
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Tabor J. Wells wrote:

> I'm thinking of AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. So for them it generally is a good
> thing to try as many MXes as possible because you'll likely hit one that can
> take the mail. They rarely timeout connections to any of the servers.


They may not. However, timeouts aren't caused only by hosts. You can
also get timeouts on network connections. Especially if you are in a
less well connected part of the world.

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