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Re: too many connection attempts?



On 17 Nov 1999, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> When I started my main zmailer's scheduler just now, I saw, for one
> host, 114 connection attempts.  There are 57 messages queued for that
> host, and it's unreachable.
> 
> Isn't this a bit too many?  Should not zmailer try just once, then
> queue up all 57 messages and retry according to the "retries" clause
> for that channel?

Do you set "skew=1" in that channel clause (or the boilerplate/default
clause) in your scheduler.conf?  That's supposed to force bulk retries.  

Otherwise, the scheduler is free to retry messages individually as their
retry times arrive...

-Andy