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09-04-2004, 02:38 PM #1Junior Guru Wannabe
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What happens to incoming emails when the server is down or offline ?
I was just wondering what happens to incoming emails when the server is down or offline?
Thanks
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09-04-2004, 03:17 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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Depends on how the sending mail server is setup, most of them try for 72 hours to deliver then return a cannot send to server type message.
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09-04-2004, 03:20 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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It'll keep trying for X amount of days, then it'll bounce back.
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09-04-2004, 03:35 PM #4Junior Guru Wannabe
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What about when the domain name is expired?
I had a friend who forgot the renew her domain name it took her about 7 days to get everything back to normal.Last edited by attila; 09-04-2004 at 03:40 PM.
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09-04-2004, 07:24 PM #5WHT Addict
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If it took that long then incoming email would simply be bounced back as being undeliverable unless they had a backup email server.
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09-05-2004, 09:45 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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Greetings:
"What about when the domain name is expired?"
That should result in a bounce back because the mail server will not be able to resolve the domain name.
Thank you.
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09-05-2004, 11:32 AM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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Thank you to everybody for their help