Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 42759
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2006/4/17-20 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:42759 Activity:low
4/16    Thanks for getting soda back up guys.  Question, is sendmail
        actively working through the backlog?  I haven't really gotten
        any old mail, and I expected at least some. -jrleek
        \_ Worry not. We backed up about 2 CDs worth of mail (that's a lotta
           text) to other places on our network. Will be unqueuing that too
           in short order -- michener
           \_ No rush at all, but I'm just curious if it will be a matter
              of hours, days, or weeks before the mail is unqueued?  I'm
              very relieved to hear that I'm not the only one who hasn't
              received any email from the past few days.
           \_ Sadly it appears that while we have been queing the mail, we
              have lost some mail (expect announcements about this once email
              is fully up and running again).  Basically once scotch's mail
              partition filled up we had to save off the messages to allow
              for more incoming.  The first time we did this, it was saved to
              the disk on screwdriver which we use for office home directories.
              To add insult to injury, this raid failed (after running
              degraded for about two weeks) and so approximately 150k messages
              were lost.  The other backups were stored on keg and we are
              actively queueing the 300k+ messages that were in the saved
              queues.  We are also looking at if there are any ways we can
              recover the lost messages. -mrauser
                \_ Even if the messages are not recoverable, is it at least
                   possible to be able to see a log of who the lost
                   messages were from, subject header, etc?
                   \_ No. This is a lot of work.
                      \_ from/to should be pullable from mail logs, no?
                         subject wouldn't be.
                         \_ Are you volunteering? If so, mail root.
                            \_ before I volunteer, how many people actually
                               want this information?
                                \_ If possible, I would like this
                                   information.  It would be of value to me
                                   to know who I may have lost mail from.
                                   I (and hopefully others) wouldn't mind
                                   making a nominal financial contribution
                                   to whomever can retrive this info. -asb
                        \_ So, for the lost messages, would the sender have
                           gotten a bounced message saying that the
                           message couldn't be delivered, or would they
                           have no reason to think their message wasn't
                           delivered?
                        \_ Is there a specific time frame (like all
                           messages sent between certain hours were lost),
                           or was it sporadic?
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