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What Happens When Email Server is Unavailable?

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Category: Spam Filter ISP
Forum Name: Spam Filter ISP Support
Forum Description: General support for Spam Filter ISP
URL: https://www.logsat.com/spamfilter/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=6311
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Topic: What Happens When Email Server is Unavailable?
Posted By: saracen
Subject: What Happens When Email Server is Unavailable?
Date Posted: 28 November 2007 at 6:31pm
Because Spam Filter ISP passes the email to the SMTP server what happens if the receiving server is unavailable?

Does the filter store the email until connectivity to the receiving mail server is restored? If so, how long will it keep it and/or retry forwarding it to the server?

Thanks.


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Posted By: jerbo128
Date Posted: 28 November 2007 at 8:11pm
saracen ,
Spamfilter will queue the emails until your smtp server becomes available again.  It stores the emails in the \queue folder.  Each email message will have a .rcpt and a .tmp file.
 
As for how long spamfilter will try... You can set that with this setting in the spamfilter.ini file:
;Number of hours SpamFilter will retry to deliver messages in queue to your destination SMTP server if it was unreacheable. Enter 0 to try forever until back online.
ExpireRetryQueueHours=0
 
Hope that helps
 
jerbo128
 


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