From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 26 07:24:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA23897 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 07:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from austin.aus.sig.net (austin.sig.net [199.1.78.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA23891 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 07:24:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tsmith@sig.net) Received: from austin.aus.sig.net (austin.sig.net [199.1.78.2]) by austin.aus.sig.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id JAA27810; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:24:19 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:24:19 -0600 (CST) From: Thad Smith X-Sender: tsmith@austin.aus.sig.net To: Gary Travis Roberts cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What happens if? In-Reply-To: <19971126144003735.AAA238@GADIANTON.campbellsci.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. > ___________________"We make the Internet work."___________________ Thad Smith tsmith@sig.net Technical Support helpdesk@sig.net SigNet Partners Inc. http://www.sig.net 512.304.0713 800.396.5158 fax: 512.306.0702 Tell us what you think; use the reply form at the address above! __________________________________________________________________