Mail issues

[Malc]

Hi Sebt

Our border mail servers will be storing the mail destined for smtp.idnet.com for 72 hours.
Regards
Simon

Thanks for that info, that is good news. I was getting a bit worried as I was waiting for something since yesterday evening.

Will things be running within the 72 hour period? A assume so.

[Rik]

We can only hope, Malc.

[Steve]

Would mail forwarding associated with an idnet.com address been similarly affected?

[Rik]

Yes, Steve, it has to get 'into the box' before it can be forwarded.

[Steve]

Thought so, just thinking ahead for next time

[Simon]

IDNet have said they will rectify whatever has caused this issue, so hopefully there won't be a 'next time', but the priority at the moment it getting services up and running again, which is obviously taking much longer than anyone anticipated.

[David]

Im sweating on a few Emails like a lot of you here,I must have been lucky with tiscrapi but in the whole 5 years I was there never in this position,saying that my faith in Idnet remains and despite other incidents I wont be too hasty.it will get fixed and hopefully we can move on lessons learned.
Thanks Simon for the last posting,thanks Rik I dont envy any of you all doing what you can in a very difficult time..............nothing technical from me just a word of thanks as I know there must be a hell of a lot of work being caried out and the pressure you are all under must be daunting....

[Pez]

Argh! I know there's nothing anyone can do about it at the moment, but this is so annoying  Thanks to Rik And Simon for the continuous updates! I know previous ISP's have failed to tell their customers anything when an error occurs!

[Rik]

Sorry we're out of magic wands, Pez - I think we'd all  like to put this one behind us. 

[john]

I've not received any e-mails since the 1st, I'm not particularly bothered as I'm not expecting anything important anyway. However I've only given my Idnet e-mail account to close friends, I use a hotmail account for everybody else, but it is a bit embarrassing when one sings the praises of Idnet to one's friends and then maybe have to explain why you've not got their e-mails 

Thanks to all those concerned who are trying to resolve the problem 

[Rik]

It is uncomfortable, John, but we're all stuck with waiting for Trevor to complete his disk check (the equivalent of a Windows CHKDSK). It just seems to be taking an inordinate amount of time.

[scook94]

that would be an "fsck", I think....

[john]

that would be an "fsck", I think....

I've used 'fsck' on Unix servers but it didn't take very long although that was a few years ago and I expect Idnet's servers drives are orders of magnitude larger.


Thanks again for all your efforts to all concerned.

[Rik]

It is fsck, and Simon D thought it would take 15-30 minutes.

[Sebby]

It is fsck, and Simon D thought it would take 15-30 minutes.

Per file?

[Rik]

 

[Malc]

Per file?

Or per email??? 

[Simon]

I can think of another letter to replace the 's' in fsck, and I bet that's been said a lot in IDNet towers over the last 30 hours!

[Lance]

[LesD]

Hey ho,
My recollection of UNIX file system "repairs" was it finds what it can and sticks an EOF at the end of it and you have to hope it managed to find all of each file particularly if they were yours!   

[sobranie]

It is uncomfortable, John, but we're all stuck with waiting for Trevor to complete his disk check (the equivalent of a Windows CHKDSK). It just seems to be taking an inordinate amount of time.

Don't really understand a lot about this subject but would express mild amazement that there's not some kind of progress %age indicator related to this colossal task.

[Tacitus]

Don't know about Linux, but on Macs - built on BSD Unix - you do fsck several times until it stops reporting errors.  Touch wood I've never had to do it...

[Malc]

Just out of curiosity, how many hundreds of gigs is the HD on this server, that takes 2 days to run a diskcheck?

[zimmerframe]

I'm still using the @idnetfreemail service, which seems to be unaffected

I never got round to changing when the option of .com came along.  Then, I am rather old...

[Simon]

... also, it seems, rather lucky, Zimmer!   

Just out of curiosity, how many hundreds of gigs is the HD on this server, that takes 2 days to run a diskcheck?

Not sure what the capacity is, Malc, but at 16:51 this afternoon, it had apparently checked 67.3M files.