Re: [cobalt-users] turning off mail services

["William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:50 PM 28/12/01 -0800, you wrote:
> "William J.A. Brillinger" wrote:
>
> > What happens to incoming email for a Raq4 if the mailserver is disabled for
> > an hour?
>
> It's up to the sending server.  Most servers on the 'net will try to
> send for four days before returning mail as undeliverable, but will send
> back a warning message after four hours.
>
> > Will it have a 'permanent fatal error' or will it be delivered when the
> > server comes back online?
>
> It'll be delivered when the server comes back online unless DNS was off
> as well.  Just another reason to run DNS on a separate machine (as we do
> <smile>).
>
> Jeff

DNS will not be running on this box. My plan is to setup an old raq with 
dummy  sites stating that "This site is not currently available" while I do 
maintenance or backups on the production box.

Then, when it's time to do maintenance, I'll shut the raq4 down, bring up 
the raq2 on the same IP and let it serve the dummy pages.

I thought it would be important to not accept mail on the dummy machine as 
it would be a pain to retrieve later.

This will also be handy late next month when my co-lo data center moves!

Thanks!!
- Bill




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