[Discuss] Lost email?

[Richard Pieri]

On Jun 16, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> What is the usual retry cycle, and how long until they give up?  I was down for about 6 hours.  I guess I'll see tonight if stuff gets retried at 24h.

Every MTA is (can be) different.  Traditionally, retries will continue every N minutes or X hours for up to 5 days, after which a bounce back to the sender will be generated.

--Rich P.