Re: [Exim] Default retry rate exceeds limit in RFC1123

Philip Hazel <ph10@???> writes:
[...]
> SHOULD of course is weaker than MUST, and even then RFCs are not legally
> binding statutes. Note also that 1123 is now 13 years old.

More or less the same text, and the same value of 30 minutes, is
included in RFC 2821, section 4.5.4.1 "Sending Strategy", and that
is less than 2 years old. :-)

I suspect that the 15 minute value may have come from the "typical
sendmail configuration".

Chris Thompson
Email: cet1@???