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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Nate Williams wrote:

> > Isn't sendmail just as happy getting a RST back when it tries to
> > connect?
> 
> Yep, but it slows mail transfers down quite a bit.
> 
> 
> Nate

Does sendmail retry when it gets a connection refused back?  If it's only
trying once, there shouldn't be any extra delay that I can see.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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