Re: [Nolug] nolug.org down?

yeah, i sent that email like 3 days ago ;)

On 10/10/06, Dane Reugger <dane@downtownpc.com> wrote:
>
> They are not all 5 days in fact some (very few) will not try again -
> that's basically the trick behind greylisting. Spambots and such are
> generally designed to blast mail out and won't even know to try again.
>
> A solution is to use a backup MX but that creates problems of its own.
>
> - Dane
>
> Joey Kelly wrote:
> > On Monday 09 October 2006 20:41, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> >
> >> Site seems to be up but I just got this 3 day old email?
> >>
> >
> > Ooh, an opportunity to teach you guys a little about SMTP :-)
> >
> > Everyone's seen transient email errors, such as "it's been 4 hours, your
> mail
> > hasn't been sent yet, I'll keep trying for another 5 days". More or less
> by
> > default, SMTP keeps trying to deliver email for 5 days before completely
> > giving up. Of course, there are random errors that make it impossible to
> > route mail to its destination, in which case you'll get a terminal error
> > almost immediately.
> >
> > My server went down Friday around noon. Mail would not have started
> bouncing
> > until Wednesday. My stuff was down for 6 days during Katrina, so I lost
> at
> > least 1 day's worth of mail.
> >
> > If an email is temporarily rejected or otherwise fails to be delivered
> on the
> > first try, the originating server waits a few minutes (10, for example)
> and
> > tries again. If the next try doesn't work, it waits even longer before
> > retrying. The reason why this message from Saturday is just now showing
> up is
> > because by this time your server has been waiting hours, not minutes,
> between
> > delivery attempts.
> >
> > --Joey
> >
> >
> >> Jonathan
> >>
> >> On 10/7/06, Trey Fox <gefox4@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Chris and I are getting that the site is down, anyone else noticed
> this.
> >>> I guess Joey may be doing something I guess.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Trey Fox
> >>> http://OpenSuse.us <http://opensuse.us/> - Administrator
> >>> http://USALUG.org <http://usalug.org/>
> >>> http://Ulteo.com <http://ulteo.com/> - Administrator
> >>>
> >
> >
>
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