Author: John W. Baxter Date: To: exim users CC: W B Hacker Subject: Re: [exim] Retry hint left over after successful delivery
On 5/31/10 4:54 AM, "W B Hacker" <wbh@???> wrote:
> IOW - short interval is what today's 'consumer' logically expects / prefers.
Mostly. We exchange email with a (physically) neighbor ISP which
1. Frequently decides to delay accepting mail from us for no discernable
reason--generally when it does that it also delays accepting mail from
places like the hotmail servers (testing with live.com address), gmail and
Yahoo (so it doesn't seem to be a problem with mail from us).
2. Once the mail has gotten into their system, whether that is delayed or
not, it can take up to 2 hours or so for it to show up in mailboxes.
3. And that same internal delay often happens with test messages sent as
one of their users using their servers, to the sending account (mine).
The above does not do much for the perceived swiftness of email around here.
And, naturally, they have outsourced the entire email operation--it was
worse when it was in-house.
