On Wednesday 24 August 2005 19:45, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 August 2005 15:02, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> > POP server went down. Seeing if I was bumped.
>
> It's a common misconception that you need to email a list to test if your
> mail server is working. All you need to do is to email yourself.
You are misunderstanding the purpose of my test. It wasn't to test my email
server. It was to test my subscription to the SLUG list.
If my POP3 server went down, there is a possibility of my email address being
*ns*bscribed from the list due to excessive bounces. That being the case, I
would still need to test my subscription, post/receive, if I hadn't received
any emails from the list. Since the last email I received from the list was
from the afternoon of 08/23, I couldn't tell if I was still subscribed. I
could probe Majordomo, but this is a true test.
/mario
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