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petemc_
on Aug 8, 2016
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Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
Obviously it would be better if there was no downtime, but the sending MTA should really have queued that mail and delivered it when Fastmail was back up.
dave_atx
on Aug 8, 2016
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It was down long enough that it blew through the queue for several (most? some?) MTAs which were about ~36 hours if I remember correctly.
whacker
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The default I have seen everywhere (qmail, postfix) is a week.
monkeywork
on Aug 9, 2016
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that's assuming no one changes defaults... if your a large enough provider you are tweaking these settings.
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