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Re: email setup
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Tue, 1 Aug 2000 17:39:58 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Frank Filz writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
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> > In lugnet.admin.general, Martin Legault writes:
> > > Hi Todd,
> > > sometime yesterday, my email set-up (witch news group that I subcribe on
> > > lugnet have been erased for "x" reason, I figured it out only this morning
> > > when I saw that no new message where comming from Lugnet, the same problem
> > > occured a few month ago, is there any bug in the system that you are aware
> > > of or any condition that may have resulted in the system to automaticaly
> > > erasing my setup?
> >
> > Your email server was bouncing all of the email sent to you -- giving
> > delivery failed status notifications back to LUGNET asking not to send
> > further mail. IIRC, it was saying either that your inbox was full or that
> > your address was invalid. This caused your email delivery subscriptions
> > to be dropped, since a flood of bounces are typically an indication of a
> > dead account.
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> I'm not sure if Nortel Canada runs their mail servers the same way
> Nortel Raleigh does, but every couple of months or so, I see errors
> occuring from all the Nortel subscribers to a listserve I run. After a
> day or two, the errors go away, though a couple times, they had
> completely changed the e-mail addresses and I had to re-subscribe all
> the Nortel folks.
Maybe it was cause by a service outage due to work on the server, they
occasionaly do this in the week-ends but sometime they have to do it during
week day.
thanks
Martin
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| (...) I'm not sure if Nortel Canada runs their mail servers the same way Nortel Raleigh does, but every couple of months or so, I see errors occuring from all the Nortel subscribers to a listserve I run. After a day or two, the errors go away, (...) (26 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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