In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] (Robert E. Williams, Jr.) writes:
> Have any of the recent mail server problems/outages caused incoming
> messages to bounce? I recently realized that over the last few weeks I've
> been somehow unsubscribed from a couple of lists. The only reason I can
> think of is that our server was bouncing mail for some reason.
>
> Also, now that I think about it, there are some private (important)
> messages that I never received that I had expected to, but whose
> non-arrival I blamed on the sender.
>
> Anyone else experience this?

I'm not aware of any problems that would have caused mail to be lost.
There have definitely been situations that would have caused mail to be
delayed, but none that would cause a loss of mail.  Properly configured
mailers should attempt to deliver mail for at least 3 days.  Generally,
we'd have to have an outage that lasted for more than 3 days for mail to be
bounced.

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                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
                                     Miami Computing and Information Services
                                     Miami University, Oxford, OH
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