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Re: retry=delay (was: I-D SMTP Extension for Greylisting)

2011-10-24 19:30:55

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011, Hector wrote:

- A consideration to simplify Servers implementation of the
retry=time tag where the server blocking time is already known in
seconds and would be an easier text response change is replace the
text word to "retry=seconds" compared to calculated the time in a
HH:MM:SS format.

- Do we need that kind of granularity?
- What's the purpose of providing all those alternatives:
  select one format and be done with it, everything else
  just adds sources of potential errors without any real gain.

Use just seconds or just minutes.  IMHO minutes are good enough for
this purpose.