On Wed, 31 May 2000, Tim Bishop wrote:
> 3. Say Exim was the only backup MX, and the main MX server was down for an
> extended period of time (say 24 hours). Will Exim queue the mail for that
> domain normally and thus generate the usual "mail has not been delivered for
> x hours" messages ? Surely from an end-user point of view when an e-mail is
> delived to any MX server for a domain it's considered "received" ?
I would definitely say that it hasn't been received, since we can be sure
that it hasn't reached the recipient's mailbox.
(Hitting an exim delivery and the recipient's mailbox are necessary,
*but not sufficient* conditions for me to say that the mail has been
received, as several past threads on this list will explain.)
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@??? http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
