Re: Restarting SMTP, should e-mails be sent immediately
- From: jeff.nospam@xxxxxxxx (Jeff Cochran)
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 04:09:31 GMT
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:53:45 -0700, "Michael" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Hi Jeff,
>
>While the SMTP service is stopped, there are no retries, right? Because if
>there are, then say I leave the SMTP service stopped for 2+ days, by default
>e-mails won't be sent after 2 days retries.
No retries. No nothing actually, the files don't get queued, and the
service isn't there to even accept them. You could leave mail files in
the drop directory but that's about it.
Jeff
>
>"Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:430164ce.139812109@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:15:59 -0700, "Michael" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Here is the scenario:
>>>1. Stop SMTP
>>>2. ASP.NET app tries to send some e-mails
>>>3. E-mails get queued
>>>4. Start SMTP
>>>
>>>My question is; will those queued e-mails automatically be delivered
>>>immediately after the SMTP service restarts? Or could there be a delay?
>>
>> There can, and often will be a delay. Sometimes numbering in hours if
>> retries have been attempted.
>>
>> Jeff
>
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