Re: sendmail.el bug or expected behavior?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:25:57 -0500
> 
> I would expect people to design an MTAs not to wait very long
> in the process that you created to send the mail.

I'm not an expert, but I always thought that the amount of time they
wait is determined by the TCP/IP time-out, which is typically 1 or 2
minutes.  At least for those cases where the destination doesn't
respond.