On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:14:19 +1200 Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote: > > They also kindly do backup mx for my domain, so when my connection is > > down (usually thanks to them anyway) it gets nicely queued by their > > mailservers. > Yes yes yes, > > please please please do this. > > > My inbox is full of crud from people who haven't done this and every > time they turn their machine off I get the bounce message. shouldn't your outgoing mail server keep trying for longer than that? I thought the default on most servers was to give up after 3 days or something. a hard bounce just because a mailserver is down on the first try seems like a recipe for disaster. > > Incidentally if I get bounce messages for more than 48 hours I consider > myself within my rights to delete you from the email list. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
