On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: [ snip ]
: something to hold the mail - if the sites sending the mail can't get : through to your mail server, they'll just hold it until they can get : through. Typically, what will happen is that people trying to send : mail to your site will only even notice that something's odd if your : server is down for three days (in that case, the person who sent the : mail will get something from their mail server saying "This message : has been undeliverable for 3 days; we'll keep trying for another 9 : days"), and all the mail will get through if your main server is down : for less than twelve. While I agree that it shouldn't be a big deal for a mailhost to be down a few days, I feel obligated to point out that sendmail at any rate defaults to 5 day timeouts for undeliverables. I see very few machines in this part of the world which queue mail for much longer than that. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
