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I mean, no one cares if accessing mail is down, but it looks like their MX is down, the status page reports incoming mail has a ‘partial’ outage. I don’t care
by cyberpunk 4y ago
I mean, no one cares if accessing mail is down, but it looks like their MX is down, the status page reports incoming mail has a ‘partial’ outage.
I don’t care if I can’t access my email for a while.
I very much care if email sent to me isn’t received. They should just be dumping all mail received at their MX’s to maildirs or something if it’s this bad and process them properly later. Losing data is not ok.
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- cmeacham98 4y agoSMTP is literally built with this scenario in mind. As long as their servers aren't incorrectly reporting a success the sender will (or at least should) retry.
- runlevel1 4y agoFortunately, retries are built into the spec (rfc5321). Typically, you retry for 3 days.
- shapefrog 4y ago> They should just be dumping all mail received at their MX’s to maildirs Not that it makes all that much difference, but this would break the encryption model for non-pgp inbound emails which are meant to get encrypted with the users public key on arrival. I have no doubt that manual interception of these messages would be trivial with a court order anyway.