[wellylug] Administrivia: broken mail servers

[Chris Hodgetts]

My understanding was that mail would cue up and not provide the delivery
error unless the smtp server at the other side did not accecpt the mail,
or it timed out.

As the cable modem network has Statically assigned, I dont see this
problem happening on the cable modem network.  unless it is down for
like 5 days, which is what most smtp servers I have used are set to, to
stop trying to deliver the mail message.

Correct me please if I am wrong.

Plus I have a secondary MX record set up for my domain, so again not
affecting me..


On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 23:08, Donald Gordon wrote:
> On 14/04/2004, at 10:36 PM, Phillip Hutchings wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 14/04/2004, at 10:26 PM, Michael Dittmer wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >
> > I've never had problems with Cable connectivity, unless I take the 
> > server down. Since I run an IRC server, there would be people 
> > complaining if it went down :P
> 
> Last year, the old COM21 cable network went down for a *whole day* 
> once.  Not good.
> 
> Currently, I actually use a backup MX (shock, horror), on one of those 
> US$20/mo User Mode Linux partitions various people in the US offer.  
> This is the sort of thing people could easily share, if they wanted 
> some form of backup.  All my mail comes back to NZ from it via IPv6, 
> too :-)
> 
> donald
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