[wellylug] Administrivia: broken mail servers

[Michael Dittmer]

I have this setup at home on cable, but all my mail queues into my mailbox
at Paradise and then my Mail Server pulls it down from there, so stopping
the issue below.

I would recommend this setup for anyone using Cable or DSL as it stops the
below issue.

Regards

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz]On Behalf Of Ewen McNeill
Sent: Wednesday, 14 April 2004 10:08 p.m.
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: [wellylug] Administrivia: broken mail servers


A quick word of warning to those of you attempting to run your own mail
servers on a cable modem/ADSL connections: if your mail server is
persistently down for days at a time, then either the mail server
software (or me, when I tire or seeing persistent "delivery attempt
failed" log messages) will disable your subscription to the mailing
list.  You can re-enable it through the mailing list web interface, but
I'm likely to ban addresses which are repeatedly down for days on end.

If you are going to subscribe to a fairly busy mailing list (50-something
messages in the past 24 hours) then it is only courteous to ensure that
the associated mail server is operational to receive those messages most
of the time.

If you don't think you're able to do that on your cable modem/ADSL mail
server, it'd be better to route the mailing list mail through a more
professionally run mail server/address.

Working mail servers, willing to accept mail, make for a happier mailing
list admin.

Ewen


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