It was an unfortunate combination of two problems.
First, GreatCircle.COM was off the air from early Sunday morning
through this evening because of a connectivity problem. That problem
has since been resolved, at least temporarily.
When GreatCircle.COM is offline, mail accumulates at our backup MX
server, which is at PostModern.COM.
The second problem is that the machine at Postmodern.COM has a bad
clock chip. Normally, this is only a problem when it reboots, until
somebody resets the clock; when it reboots, its idea of the current
date/time is wildly off. Unfortunately, it rebooted yesterday while
there were a bunch of GreatCircle.COM messages cooling their heels in
its queue; when it started processing the queue after the reboot, it
started bouncing messages because it thought they had been in the
queue too long (more than 10 days). MCB stopped this fairly quickly
after the reboot, but a few messages were bounced nonetheless.
-Brent
At 9:43 PM -0600 2/26/01, D. Liston wrote:
>I sent 7 replies into the list today, and all of them
>bounced as undeliverable for 1 week, 3days, from
>server.postmodern.com with a return date of 3 Apr 2036.
>
>The message headers from my own messages had the right
>date, time stamp, and time zone for today's information.
>
>Has anyone else had this problem today?
>
>Dan Liston
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Brent Chapman Great Circle Associates, Inc.
Brent@GreatCircle.COM http://www.greatcircle.com/
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