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Oof, incoming mail is down too. Does that mean any emails that you should have received in this downtime are lost?
by kylehotchkiss 6y ago
Oof, incoming mail is down too. Does that mean any emails that you should have received in this downtime are lost?
- sz4kerto 6y agoNo, because SMTP is a sane protocol, and it'll retry later.
- AntiRush 6y agoProbably not. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.4 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.4
- lifty 6y agoNormally the other side should retry delivering several times, with varying degrees of time between the retries (up to days).