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Re: 2821bis consideration - New 2nd attempt Retry Strategy recommendation

2007-11-17 20:23:28

At 00:20 -0800 on 11/17/2007, SM wrote about Re: 2821bis consideration - New 2nd attempt Retry Strategy :

It's only a lot of retries over four or five days if you retry too frequently. Some view the period as too long. A two-day give-up period, for example, may result in delivery issues being missed if it falls over a weekend

You need at least 4 days to handle 3 day weekends (a holiday on Friday or Monday) although I've seen 4 day Holidays (Xmas and New Years on a Friday and the company shutting down at Noon on Thursday). A better idea is to use 3 days BUT adjust it to 4 or 5 days when there is a Friday/Monday holiday (although that can still run into problems since it is US Centric and can run afoul of Non-US Holidays).

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