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> How long will this take- as stopping  the daemons (spamd/clamd etcc..) =
will
> cause a halt in my incoming mail?

>Only a temporary halt.  SMTP was designed for intermittent / flaky
>connections. =20
>The sending servers will just try again, for a few days typically,  if =
it
>fails on the initial attempt(s).


I'm aware of SMTP retries- just trying to gauge how long it will take - =
as I
have certain users that become very unhappy when they see a massage =
arrive
more than an hour after it was originally sent.