SCOUG-HELP Mailing List Archives

<< Previous Message << >> Next Message >>

Date:	Tue, 6 May 2003 09:08:33 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Mail Server

Content Type: text/plain

=====================================================
If you are responding to someone asking for help who
may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
=====================================================

Peter wrote:

> I've always answered your questions, Jordan . . .

Not when you've disappeared for long stretches of time.

> > If you're running your own mail server, does it need to be up
> > on some machine 24/7, or can you just bring it up whenever
> > you boot up OS/2, with no loss of mail or functionality ?
>
> I only use my own mail server for _outgoing_ mail, so it only needs to
> be running when I click on "Send". I have it in my Startup Folder and
> it's always running when my machine is on.

Good, that's what I needed to know.

> *However*, if you are running your own incoming email
> server then the email server at the sender's ISP can't connect and
> forward the message so it is "queued" and the server will try again
> later. "Later" is an amount of time configured by the ISP's webmaster.
> After typically 5 days of attempts, an undelivered message is sent back to the sender.

As contrasted with the "normal" incoming mail (from your ISP), where you can
go away for a month, to somewhere that has you totally offline, and still retrieve
your email upon your return. Still, even being here continuously, and regularly
online, one sometimes gets notices of mail that is "queued and undeliverable",
sometimes the same item for several days until it times out. Where such mail
exchange has worked before and works again later on, it must be a sign of an
ISP's mail servers being down or seriously messed up.

Jordan

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"rollin@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 06 | May | 2003 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.