[82017] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT? /dev/null 5.1.1 email
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Fri Jul 8 15:33:17 2005
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200507060330.j663Uvmq010919@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 23:48:31 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 23:30 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:49:54 EDT, Jim Popovitch said:
>
> > The problem with the above is that your (or your users') email delivery
> > is then dependent upon the configuration and timeouts of someone else's
> > system (my system drops undeliverables after 1 hour).
>
> Wow. A whole whopping 1% of the RFC2821-recommended 4-5 days.
>
> How's that working out for you?
Actually quite well. Please understand that I am probably not utilizing
and providing email on this system exactly like you or anyone else is.
This system provides mailinglist services to dedicated subscribers.
Yes, they may experience their own email problems, if prolonged... they
can catch up on all that they missed in the mailinglist archives. Keeps
my log files clean. :-)
-Jim P.
