[H-GEN] Humbug machine problems and lost email

[Greg Black]

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Robert Brockway wrote:

| On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Greg Black wrote:
| 
| > [ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and     ]
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| > Now that the Humbug web site seems to be back on the air and the
| > mailing lists appear to be operating again, I guess we can
| > presume that things are back to normal.  But what will happen to
| > the mail that was sent to the Humbug email aliases while things
| > were not normal?  Have those messages disappeared forever into a
| > black hole or will they eventually be delivered?
| 
| It'll depend on the MX records for the domain that the mail was addressed
| to.  For those with addresses of the form foobar at humbug.org.au we can look
| at the MX records for humbug.org.au to determine what will occur:
| 
| rani:~>host -t mx humbug.org.au
| humbug.org.au mail is handled by 50 caliburn.humbug.org.au.
| humbug.org.au mail is handled by 100 mailhub1.uq.net.au.
| humbug.org.au mail is handled by 100 mailhub2.uq.net.au.
| humbug.org.au mail is handled by 200 postoffice.telstra.net.
| 
| With caliburn down the UQ mail servers will hold our mail.  If they were
| also down (unlikely) then a mail server at Telstra will hold our mail for
| 72 hours.  Since the downtime was about 24 hours[1] all mail should have
| found its way to its destination relatively quickly once caliburn was back
| with us.

The point of my message is that this has not happened.  Messages
that were sent to gjb at humbug.org.au have not been delivered
(yet).  I am wondering if they ever will.

Greg

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