Recent website and forum failure

[Steve Fabian]

Rex:

Have all posts accepted by the forum since the recent failure of the website
and the consequent failure of the forum been sent to email subscribers? The
only ones I received are 1 in TC plugins, and 3 in TC beta.

I just reposted the two posts I sent that were never received. One of them
may be obsolete by now.
--
Steve

 

[rconn]

Steve Fábián wrote:

>
> Have all posts accepted by the forum since the recent failure of the website
> and the consequent failure of the forum been sent to email subscribers? The
> only ones I received are 1 in TC plugins, and 3 in TC beta.
>
> I just reposted the two posts I sent that were never received. One of them
> may be obsolete by now.

Yes; I've received all of the copies of your posts.

Rex Conn
JP Software

 

[Steve Fabian]

rconn wrote:
| Steve Fábián wrote:
|| Have all posts accepted by the forum since the recent failure of
|| the website and the consequent failure of the forum been sent to
|| email subscribers? The only ones I received are 1 in TC plugins,
|| and 3 in TC beta.
||
|| I just reposted the two posts I sent that were never received. One
|| of them may be obsolete by now.

| Yes; I've received all of the copies of your posts.

But only the posts I sent this morning came back. I saw at least 3 posts on
the web forum that have not been distributed by email.
--
Steve

 

[rconn]

Steve Fábián wrote:

> rconn wrote:
> | Steve Fábián wrote:
> || Have all posts accepted by the forum since the recent failure of
> || the website and the consequent failure of the forum been sent to
> || email subscribers? The only ones I received are 1 in TC plugins,
> || and 3 in TC beta.
> ||
> || I just reposted the two posts I sent that were never received. One
> || of them may be obsolete by now.
>
> | Yes; I've received all of the copies of your posts.
>
> But only the posts I sent this morning came back. I saw at least 3 posts on
> the web forum that have not been distributed by email.

The web site, forum, and ftp site were all down Wednesday through
Thursday. Anything you sent while it was down will never be distributed
by email.

Rex Conn
JP Software

 

[Steve Fabian]

rconn wrote:
| The web site, forum, and ftp site were all down Wednesday through
| Thursday. Anything you sent while it was down will never be
| distributed by email.

Do you mean that posts emailed to the forum while it was down, and
browser-made posts between forum restoration and email restoration will not
be distributed (i.e., emailed)? That stinks!
--
Steve

 

[rconn]

rconn wrote:
| The web site, forum, and ftp site were all down Wednesday through
| Thursday. Anything you sent while it was down will never be
| distributed by email.

Do you mean that posts emailed to the forum while it was down, and
browser-made posts between forum restoration and email restoration will not
be distributed (i.e., emailed)? That stinks!
--
Steve

Since the mail server was also down, it cannot possibly have sent (or received) anything.

 

[Steve Fabian]

rconn wrote:
| ---Quote (Originally by Steve Fábián)---
|| rconn wrote:
||| The web site, forum, and ftp site were all down Wednesday through
||| Thursday. Anything you sent while it was down will never be
||| distributed by email.
||
|| Do you mean that posts emailed to the forum while it was down, and
|| browser-made posts between forum restoration and email restoration
|| will not
|| be distributed (i.e., emailed)? That stinks!
|| --
|| Steve
|| ---End Quote---
| Since the mail server was also down, it cannot possibly have sent
| (or received) anything.

I realize that while the mail server was down, nothing in / nothing out.
What I am referring to is that apparently the forum server was up before the
mail server, and posts made during that interval were not distributed when
the mail server was restarted.
--
Steve

 

[rconn]

rconn wrote:
| ---Quote (Originally by Steve Fábián)---
|| rconn wrote:
||| The web site, forum, and ftp site were all down Wednesday through
||| Thursday. Anything you sent while it was down will never be
||| distributed by email.
||
|| Do you mean that posts emailed to the forum while it was down, and
|| browser-made posts between forum restoration and email restoration
|| will not
|| be distributed (i.e., emailed)? That stinks!
|| --
|| Steve
|| ---End Quote---
| Since the mail server was also down, it cannot possibly have sent
| (or received) anything.

I realize that while the mail server was down, nothing in / nothing out.
What I am referring to is that apparently the forum server was up before the
mail server, and posts made during that interval were not distributed when
the mail server was restarted.
--
Steve

That's not quite what happened - the web & forum server was up for a short time, then it went down again for several hours before everything was restored (the mail server last of all).

But the forum email requires the email server to be up -- if it isn't, the messages do *not* get saved to be sent later.

 

[Steve Fabian]

rconn wrote:
| That's not quite what happened - the web & forum server was up for a
| short time, then it went down again for several hours before
| everything was restored (the mail server last of all).
|
| But the forum email requires the email server to be up -- if it
| isn't, the messages do *not* get saved to be sent later.

Couldn't the mail sender scan the forum for messages newer than the last one
it sent out, and send them out? It could do this only when newly started.
--
Steve

 

[rconn]

Steve Fábián wrote:

> rconn wrote:
> | That's not quite what happened - the web & forum server was up for a
> | short time, then it went down again for several hours before
> | everything was restored (the mail server last of all).
> |
> | But the forum email requires the email server to be up -- if it
> | isn't, the messages do *not* get saved to be sent later.
>
> Couldn't the mail sender scan the forum for messages newer than the last one
> it sent out, and send them out? It could do this only when newly started.

It could, but it doesn't. I'll pass that on to the vBulletin
developers, but I wouldn't expect to see anything soon.

Rex Conn
JP Software