"Simon Byrnand"
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, James Riden wrote:
~400 messages deferred (connection timed out) for mta.xtra.co.nz at the moment. Anyone else seeing the same?
125 in the queue on a box I admin.
(When smallisp isn't accepting mail, it's their problem. When xtra isn't accepting mail, it's our problem :)
I'm sure their customers think it's their problem. After all, they're the ones not receiving their email.
I think what he meant was that it becomes other peoples problem in terms of a large outgoing queue building up on their mailservers...(since Xtra has no secondary MX record)
Plenty of space in the mail queue yet, but we have to field 'why hasn't my mail been delivered to X?' questions. -- James Riden / j.riden(a)massey.ac.nz / Systems Security Engineer Information Technology Services, Massey University, NZ. GPG public key available at: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~jriden/