Re: [PLUG] where'd these emails go ?

[Darxus <darxus@op.net>]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Michael C. Toren wrote:

> > Mar 15 11:52:33 mail sendmail[13409]: LAA13407:
> > to=cliffordd@hill.iqgroup.com, ctladdr=root (0/0),
> >  delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, relay=hill.iqgroup.com,
> > stat=Host unknown (Name server: hill.iqgroup.com: host not found)
> > 
> > I set the mail relay to hill.iqgroup.com.  Stuff stopped working, so I
> > thought I changed the mail relay back to what it was supposed to be.  I
> > failed.  So incoming mail stopped working.  I've since corrected this, but
> > what happened to the email that was sent while this problem existed ?  Is
> > it gone, or in a file somewhere ?
> 
> Are they still in the mailq?  If not, you can ask some of the senders if

How would I know ?

> they received a bounce message.

There were no bounced messages.

> By the way, the zonefile that we (Netaxs) are pulling from you has the same
> serial that your ns.iqgroup.com nameserver is reporting, however our server
> doesn't have a hill.iqgroup.com host defined while yours does.  Did you
> perhaps forget to increment the serial number after making changes?

Perceptive as always...

I didn't forget.  Mail isn't supposed to be getting relayed to hill right
now, so it I just added the entry real quick w/out bothering to increment
the serial number.  I'll go do that. 
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