From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15125 invoked by alias); 18 Aug 2003 15:58:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 15118 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2003 15:58:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO redhat.com) (66.187.230.200) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Aug 2003 15:58:27 -0000 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id C96176BEF7; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:58:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:58:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: Matthew Galgoci Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [postmaster@chiark.greenend.org.uk: [postmaster@sources.redhat.com] Excessive retries by your mail system] Message-ID: <20030818155826.GA23996@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Galgoci , overseers@sources.redhat.com References: <20030818131644.GA16294@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-q3/txt/msg00162.txt.bz2 On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:47:57AM -0400, Matthew Galgoci wrote: >I'd start by looking at the mail logs to see what it was trying to >deliver. There may have been multiple messages (like from a high >volume list) which would rule out his theory about the retries being >too quick and against rfc. Um, yes. I assumed that this was a consequence of the way qmail sends messages. I was wondering if anyone had specific experience with this, if there were qmail settings for this, and if his interpretation of RFC1123 was correct. In particular, I was hoping that Ian or Jason might have an idea about how this relates to the qmail setup on sources.redhat.com. cgf