Article View: altnet.general
Article #703Re: downtime that just happened - Tuesday 9/9/97
From: Eli the Bearded
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 00:00
26 lines
2332 bytes
2332 bytes
Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net> wrote: > nobody@nowhere.com (E.C.H.) writes: > >Ouch. What happened to incoming email during that time? Did it get > >bounced? > In most (99+%) cases no. Most mail servers will hold mail for 3 to 5 days > while trying to get it to its destination. They will retry sends at > periodic intervals (like every 15 or 30 minutes). One technique I have seen advoacted to get rid of spam email is to refuse the first connection from any server. Real mail gets delayed that 15 to 30 minutes but spam houses don't bother retrying. It is not effective against relayed spam mail however unless the admin of the relay site notices and stops the relaying in that period -- not likely if they still allow relaying. > So, unless we are down for more than 3 days, mail will generally not be > lost. Depending on how you have your nameservice, etc. set up, you might be able to to put a new MX record in that amount of time to accept the mail elsewhere during such an outage. Elijah ------ the refuse-first-connect technique is not popular
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<eli$9709101032@qz.little-neck.ny.us>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<Pine.BSI.3.93.970909164757.2960A-100000@baklava.alt.net> <3415f3a2.19752896@news.alt.net> <5v57mu$tj$0@207.14.113.2>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f67f3,3b51e3be18e376,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf67f3,public X-Google-Thread: fd665,3b51e3be18e376,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfd665,public From: Eli the Bearded <usenet-tag@qz.little-neck.ny.us> Subject: Re: downtime that just happened - Tuesday 9/9/97 Date: 1997/09/10 Message-ID: <eli$9709101032@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Deja-AN: 271384945 References: <Pine.BSI.3.93.970909164757.2960A-100000@baklava.alt.net> <3415f3a2.19752896@news.alt.net> <5v57mu$tj$0@207.14.113.2> X-Save-Project-Gutenberg: <URL:http://www.promo.net/pg/nl/pgny_nov96.html> X-From-Notes: This is sent from a valid but tagged return address. Failure to include an "Re:" in the subject may cause reply mail to bounce. Organization: Some absurd concept X-Files: Used for sharpening claws and teeth on your hawk and hacksaw X-attribution: EtB X-Acceptable-Email-Policy: for rules about sending mail to this account see: <URL:ftp://ftp.netusa.net/users/eli/email.txt> -- plain text; <URL:http://www.netusa.net/~eli/email.html> -- html format; or <URL:mailto:email-policy@qz.little-neck.ny.us> -- autoresponse Newsgroups: altnet.general,bogus.e-t=b,alt.fan.e-t-b X-US-Congress: Moronic Fucks.