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Date:      Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:24:19 -0600 (CST)
From:      Thad Smith <tsmith@sig.net>
To:        Gary Travis Roberts <travis@campbellsci.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What happens if?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95.971126092003.21379I-100000@austin.aus.sig.net>
In-Reply-To: <19971126144003735.AAA238@GADIANTON.campbellsci.com>

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On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Gary Travis Roberts wrote:

> What happens to E-mail in this situation? 

The user gets a message from their sendmail server saying that the
connection to the server failed.

> Is there such a thing as lost E-mail?

Well, there's no email grave or anything like that. After sendmail (qmail,
etc.) doesn't connect to the server, it sends the message back and either
holds onto it and tries to resend it several times, or deletes it. It all
depends on how the individual server is setup.

> We currently are using Netscape Mail Server and NT but have since 
> grown wiser and are now in the process of moving our systems to Free 
> BSD. Thanks for your help.
> 
> G. Travis Roberts                              KC7HHK
> MIS Software Engineer / Assistant Network Administrator
> Campbell Scientific, Inc.
> 

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