RE: [cobalt-users] mail question

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> if the email didn't get to me then wouldn't his isp have a timeout message
> or similar and pass that error back to him ?

Maybe. Depends on his ISPs mail server. Ask him to send mail to an unknown
user on your system and see if at least that bounces back as "user unknown"
to him.

> could it have gotten to me and not been logged ? (- can't see this one)
> what sort of things could happen that would cause the email to
> black hole ?

On his ISPs end, no way of knowing without knowing their system. If it's
@Home, anything could happen. They've lost tons of their users email.

>
> There are also some instances (in reviewing his headers) where there have
> been long delays getting from his server to mine - this tends to
> point me to
> an overloaded ISP server that is losing the mesages ?

Who is doing your DNS and are the nameservers on two different networks? If
there's a connection problem to your network momentarily when his ISP tries
to connect it could cause a problem.

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Dan Kriwitsky