On Monday 25 April 2005 07:37, Tomi Hakala wrote:
Andrew Hutchings wrote:
- Have a dead server response setup. Freeserve/Wanadoo do this by setting a flag in their software which accepts all POP connections regards of user/pass and says there is no mail (users don't panic and flood the phones for a while then). Not sure how you would do this with IMAP though.
I'v been thinking the same thing. One issue that has crossed my mind is that how POP3 clients work in case like this when user leaves his/hers mail on the server.
Hmm...A read only mailbox maybe.
I know...a single mail that can be downloaded once by every user which says a
server status until system is fully online, could even be held in the config
file. A small DB in RAM or a file or something could state who has 'deleted'
the message so they don't download it twice.
Either that or give them a BOFH excuse when they phone :)
The phones went non-stop for 4 hours when our NFS failed, everyone but me was
at a trade show, and due to a bug in exchange a customer of a customer had
accidentally generated several million E-Mails over 24 hours with the bounces
pointed at us which filled the backup NFS server HDD so that wasn't reliable.
It would have been so much easier if I could have switched the phones off :)
I had a fun day :)
Regards Andrew
Andrew Hutchings (A-Wing) Linux Guru - Netserve Consultants Ltd. - www.domaincity.co.uk Admin - North Wales Linux User Group - www.nwlug.org.uk Proprietor - A-Wing Internet Services - www.a-wing.co.uk Random BOFH excuse: working as designed