[Discuss] Lost email?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> writes:

> On Jun 16, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> 
>> What is the usual retry cycle, and how long until they give up?  I was down for about 6 hours.  I guess I'll see tonight if stuff gets retried at 24h.
>
> Every MTA is (can be) different.  Traditionally, retries will continue
> every N minutes or X hours for up to 5 days, after which a bounce back
> to the sender will be generated.

It turned out to be a non-issue, but a UI misunderstanding.  My webmail
UI was showing me message dates when the message was received, not the
"Date" header when the message was sent.  Once I opened up some messages
I found some that were sent during the outage, so yes, they got to me
just fine.

> --Rich P.

-derek
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