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Obviously it would be better if there was no downtime, but the sending MTA should really have queued that mail and delivered it when Fastmail was back up.
by petemc_ 10y ago
Obviously it would be better if there was no downtime, but the sending MTA should really have queued that mail and delivered it when Fastmail was back up.
- dave_atx 10y agoIt was down long enough that it blew through the queue for several (most? some?) MTAs which were about ~36 hours if I remember correctly.
- whacker 10y agoThe default I have seen everywhere (qmail, postfix) is a week.
- monkeywork 10y agothat's assuming no one changes defaults... if your a large enough provider you are tweaking these settings.