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  15     <B>Craig Edwards</B>
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  19     <I>Mon Nov 22 10:28:38 PST 2004</I>
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  34 <PRE>i'd recommend using smtp rather than sendmail if you're doing this, so that your mailer daemon
  35 handles mail retries for you. If your own local mailserver is down this is more of a problem than a
  36 remote mailserver being down and will probably be fixed much faster.
  37
  38 Thanks,
  39 Craig
  40
  41 Torbj&#246;rn Svensson wrote:
  42 &gt;<i> Hi!
  43 </I>&gt;<i>
  44 </I>&gt;<i>
  45 </I>&gt;<i> Just found out that there is a serious(?) flaw in mailhandeling. If the
  46 </I>&gt;<i> mailserver is down you won't get any mail when you register, and it's
  47 </I>&gt;<i> not placed in any queue so it wont be sent later when the mailserver is
  48 </I>&gt;<i> up again.
  49 </I>&gt;<i>
  50 </I>&gt;<i>
  51 </I>&gt;<i> ~From my logfile (I have replaced the hosts and username):
  52 </I>&gt;<i> [Nov 09 18:14:24 2004] nickserv/main: my_nick registered by
  53 </I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://lists.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">my_nick at host.tld</A> (<A HREF="http://lists.ircservices.za.net/mailman/listinfo/ircservices">user at host.tld</A>)
  54 </I>&gt;<i> [Nov 09 18:14:26 2004] sockets: connect(1 -&gt; mail.host.tld:25): No route
  55 </I>&gt;<i> to host
  56 </I>&gt;<i> [Nov 09 18:14:26 2004] mail/smtp: Connection to server failed for socket
  57 </I>&gt;<i> 0x813d4f0
  58 </I>&gt;<i>
  59 </I>&gt;<i> Andrew, is this something you could fix? Atleast add a backup server to
  60 </I>&gt;<i> use.
  61 </I>&gt;<i>
  62 </I>&gt;<i> Thanks!
  63 </I>&gt;<i> --
  64 </I>&gt;<i> ~  .''`. Torbj&#246;rn Svensson, azoff (at) se (dot) linux (dot) org
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