On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:00:47 EDT, Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > It never sends the email in either case. In the first case, it will say no
> > such host, and return an error to the user. In the second case, it will
> > attempt to connect to 64.94.110.11 and will get an error, which will be
> > returned to the MUA.
>
> So if a domain gets shelved by accident, as happened to one NANOG poster
> this weekend, all their mail gets sucked up and handed a 5xx error by the
> Verisign server and bounced, rather than getting hit with a 4xx and retried
> for a few days.
As was pointed out, some servers will give up right away. In either case,
the user should get a bounce, and can follow the instructions as to
whether the delivery will be retried or not.
--Dean
