From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Mail posting in newsgroups in Gnus Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 11:01:02 +0300 Message-ID: <834ma183wh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160513183937477161621@bob.proulx.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1463212866 15313 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2016 08:01:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 08:01:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 14 10:01:06 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b1UVW-0000i9-3z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 May 2016 10:01:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37037 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b1UVV-0004oN-EV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 May 2016 04:01:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42305) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b1UVL-0004ih-Em for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 May 2016 04:00:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b1UVE-00043J-7Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 May 2016 04:00:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b1UVE-00042Z-4O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 May 2016 04:00:48 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1462 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1b1UVC-0003WB-8U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 May 2016 04:00:46 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Jude DaShiell on Fri, 13 May 2016 23:06:43 -0400 (EDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109945 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 23:06:43 -0400 (EDT) > From: Jude DaShiell > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > The internet standard for email message delivery is to try for 240 hours > or 10 days whichever comes first then return delivery error report to > the sender if delivery has failed in those 240 hours or 10 days. It was > designed that way since the internet's original purpose was to survive a > nuclear attack. I never saw such long timeouts. I generally get a soft error message after 1 hour, and a "hard" delivery failure after 2 hours.