[tech] Sane mail

[Grahame Bowland]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 04:48:05PM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:05:18AM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> >  * we don't lose our email when morwong vanishes
> 
> Does email vanish as such or is it declined? Isn't there a saner way
> - I would've thought sendmail on mooneye would simply decline any
> email if it couldn't access the file it was expecting to deliver
> it to, in which case the sending MTA should try back in a few
> hours time, yes?

When NFS isn't there it sits there trying to use it and the remote 
server either gives up, or we return an error code and the remote 
server re-queues the email. Although we have hit NFS related situations 
where we hard-bounce email.