Doh! does qmail still have my messages?
Howdy folks, Here's the deal I installed vpopmail about halfway yesterday, just enough to break mail delivery. vpopmail took over diligence.com as a virtual domain with no users, and started bouncing messages... Does anyone know a way to get those bounced messages back here? I've got local delivery working again, which is half a blessing, but my concern is the email sent to us between the time I broke it and now. Are they floating in a local queue somewhere? Are they sitting on the various sender's mail servers waiting to come in? Are they simply gone, in which case I should probably email everyone I can think of and ask them to send anything they sent from yesterday afternoon onward? Advice, counseling, flames, notes in the form of "Jer, you're an idiot" are welcome... I hope they will just automagically find their way back here...but I have a suspicion that this hope is in vain. Jer The Humble Sysdamin
Re: Doh! does qmail still have my messages?
Jerry Lynde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed vpopmail about halfway yesterday, just enough to break mail delivery. Oops. vpopmail took over diligence.com as a virtual domain with no users, and started bouncing messages... Does anyone know a way to get those bounced messages back here? If vpopmail (which I understand is called in the manner of qmail-command) actually bounced them, they're gone. The only way to get them back is phone the people who sent them originally and get them to send it again. Are they floating in a local queue somewhere? Are they sitting on the various sender's mail servers waiting to come in? No, they would still exist if they had been deferred, but not if they were bounced. Are they simply gone, in which case I should probably email everyone I can think of and ask them to send anything they sent from yesterday afternoon onward? Yes. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
Re: Doh! does qmail still have my messages?
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:57:52AM -0600, Jerry Lynde wrote: Howdy folks, Here's the deal I installed vpopmail about halfway yesterday, just enough to break mail delivery. vpopmail took over diligence.com as a virtual domain with no users, and started bouncing messages... Does anyone know a way to get those bounced messages back here? Nope. They bounced. The original senders are (or should be[1]) aware that their messages did not get through, and will resend them (or call the person they emailed, and complain, ;) ). I hope they will just automagically find their way back here...but I have a suspicion that this hope is in vain. [SNIP] See above -- this hope is in vain, but perhaps not as bad as you think. Jer The Humble Sysdamin [1] That is, if their sending SMTP server is not a broken piece of junk that refuses bounces, or some other such silliness. -- Greg White Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John F. Kennedy
Doh! does qmail still have my messages?
Howdy folks, Here's the deal I installed vpopmail about halfway yesterday, just enough to break mail delivery. vpopmail took over diligence.com as a virtual domain with no users, and started bouncing messages... Does anyone know a way to get those bounced messages back here? I've got local delivery working again, which is half a blessing, but my concern is the email sent to us between the time I broke it and now. Are they floating in a local queue somewhere? Are they sitting on the various sender's mail servers waiting to come in? Are they simply gone, in which case I should probably email everyone I can think of and ask them to send anything they sent from yesterday afternoon onward? Advice, counseling, flames, notes in the form of "Jer, you're an idiot" are welcome... I hope they will just automagically find their way back here...but I have a suspicion that this hope is in vain. Jer The Humble Sysdamin
