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[Avi Schwartz]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> Avi Schwartz wrote:
>
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>> Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
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>>> A "legit" mail server will attempt to redeliver mail for as long as the
>>> admin decides it should. There's multitudes of servers out there
>>> running on a three day rule. And I've seen some quit trying in one. If
>>> you're depending on admins to blindly accept the default setting of one
>>> piece of software you *will* be sunk.
>>>   
>>>       
>> In more then 5 years of running my own server never had any such
>> problem, even when my server was down for 2 days while I was rebuilding
>> it.
>>     
>
> You don't really know though - if someone got an "undeliverable" message, 9
> times out of 10 they'll have checked the address, assumed they did
> something wrong, and resent it, and you won't ever hear that there was a
> problem.
>   

Believe me, I'd know.
>>> Even if every mail server on the planet tried to deliver for 5 days it
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>
> Which I agree they don't...
>
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>>> wouldn't help the poor slob who called his provider and was told it
>>> would be a week before someone could come out and take care of his
>>> problem. There's no guarantee residential service outages won't cause
>>> lost mail even with a 5 day grace period. At least not at any service
>>> provider I've ever dealt with.
>>>       
>
> Where I live, residential phone/cable service has been out twice for more
> than 5 days in the last five years on our whole road (some hundreds of
> customers) - and that's just because of major line damage.  If it only
> affected a few homes, we wouldn't know. The local cable provider is
> renowned for long outages..
>   
That's why I suggested that people that may have a downed connection for 
a long period of time to get a (cheap) secondary MX but to make sure to 
turn it on only when they need it or a ton of spam will come through it.


Avi