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Grex Info Item 73: Problem with e-mail?
Entered by raven on Tue Sep 21 16:57:48 UTC 1993:

        Are we having a problem with e-mail? I havn't recieved any e-mail
in 3 days. While it's possible it's a drought on my end, I doubt it 
because I usually 30+ e-mail messages a day.

14 responses total.

#1 of 14 by davel on Tue Sep 21 17:13:58 1993:

Meg announced in the Agora announcements that Netmeg was down.  That's how we
get mail in (and out).

#2 of 14 by raven on Tue Sep 21 17:31:47 1993:

        Is the e-mail coming to Grex being saved, or is it bouncing on the
senders end?

#3 of 14 by davel on Tue Sep 21 22:06:14 1993:

I presume it's being held at the system(s) where Meg gets it, unless they
run out of disk space.  I think I've seen mail with some sort of expiration
heading item; that might make a difference.  (That was for a mailing list.)

The system it comes from is (or was until very recently & is as far as I know)
typically a UM machine called destroyer.

And Meg carries megabytes of mail to us every day out of the goodness of her
heart, BTW; I for one really appreciate it.

#4 of 14 by srw on Tue Sep 21 22:50:37 1993:

Me too.

I believe Meg said to me once that the default is to hold mail for
7 days. After that it will bounce. I hope this is right.

I don't believe anyone's disk space is the determining factor.

#5 of 14 by vidar on Wed Sep 22 01:37:05 1993:

I got some weird 'send-mail (#) NULL' message when I tried to send a message
to Britain a few minutes ago.  What does it mean?  I don't remember the #,
though.

#6 of 14 by popcorn on Wed Sep 22 03:49:46 1993:

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#7 of 14 by raven on Wed Sep 22 15:45:02 1993:

Thanks to staff (Meg?) for saving my old e-mail and getting it to me. As
always ya'll do a prompt and efficent job!

#8 of 14 by srw on Thu Sep 23 01:23:42 1993:

Thanks, meg.

#9 of 14 by vidar on Fri Sep 24 22:14:35 1993:

Well, I don't know about the second message getting through.  But the first
did.  Probably 'cause it was mailed 3 hours earlier.

#10 of 14 by tsty on Tue Mar 8 20:34:34 1994:

Email problem/question here (MONTHS later). A friend gave me his
loginid for Prodigy (gag, however ....) but notthe suffix after the @.
  
Does anyone know the correct suffix for Internet email (if there is one),
for XXyyZZ@??????????????   for Prodigy mail?

#11 of 14 by davel on Tue Mar 8 23:35:09 1994:

I don't *know* (& hope someone who does will jump in quick), but I'd suggest
@prodigy.com as the most likely thing to try - if you're minded to gamble.

#12 of 14 by scg on Wed Mar 9 03:11:47 1994:

Query? prodigy.com any
        prodigy.com
        nameserver #1 is INETGATE.PRODIGY.COM
        nameserver #2 is NIS.ANS.NET
        nameserver #3 is NS.ANS.NET
        mail exchange #1 inetgate.prodigy.com

#13 of 14 by tsty on Thu Mar 10 19:06:42 1994:

So ... @prodigy.com will get resolved soemwhere, right?

#14 of 14 by scg on Fri Mar 11 05:35:47 1994:

Looks like it.

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