Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:35:05 -0600 (CST) From: Jeff Lynch <jeff@mercury.jorsm.com> To: Gary Travis Roberts <travis@campbellsci.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What happens if? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971126093136.24624B-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> In-Reply-To: <19971126144003735.AAA238@GADIANTON.campbellsci.com>
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Although I have no experience with Netscape mailserver, I do know that if I tried to send you a message while you were down, sendmail would try every 30 minutes for 4 hours and then put your message in a longer queue if still not deliverable. After seven days, it gets deleted. Note this is sendmail specific and pretty close to default settings for sendmail. Since most of us use sendmail, you should not have any problems with receiving messages queued by other servers after coming back up. ========================================================================= Jeffrey A. Lynch, President JORSM Internet email: jeff@jorsm.com Northwest Indiana's Full-Service Provider Voice: (219)322-2180 927 Sheffield Avenue, Dyer, IN 46311 Autoresponse: info@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Gary Travis Roberts wrote: > Sorry, This is a little off the subject. > We had an interesting experience here this last Monday when our > service provider's (the one that provides our connection to the > Internet backbone) router failed. When this happened our domain was > essentially unreachable. My question to the group is. What happens > to E-mail in this situation. We have a few theorys here, but have > never read anything that explicitly states that these are fact. > Anyone know for sure what is going on with E-mail for servers that > are unreachable? Is there such a thing as lost E-mail? > 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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