From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 10:07:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA16338 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:07:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA16328; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:07:47 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199610161707.KAA16328@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: this is dumb To: tcg@ime.net (Gary Chrysler) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, bill@twwells.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199610121207.IAA21881@ime.net> from "Gary Chrysler" at Oct 12, 96 08:07:29 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary Chrysler wrote: > > > Yup, This happened to me when my ISP went down over a weekend. > Suposedly that will never happen again.. (Yea right) > > Anyways, It'd be cool if he (our honorable Postmaster) could > get the script to wait for a period(s) of time and check again and > if the address becomes valid ... .... > Maye it does and I just was over the max limit.. :( i am catching up on past mail, sorry for the delay ;( we are sending out 150K+ email messages a day. i get 500-1000-2000 bounces a day ;( most are single bounces from sites that are "working okay, really" if one sites starts to bounce a significat portion of their mail then i unsubscribe them. one of two cases applies: they have an MX host and have been off-the-net long enoug for the MX host to begin bouncing mail (generally 5 days) or they have no MX host, for some reason or other. every site should have an MX host, or two, or three ;) unless they are *never* down. jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB