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"If you were affected by this issue, it’s important to note that email sent to you between 6:00 PM PST on February 27 and 2:00 PM PST on February 28 was likely not delivered to your mailbox, and the senders would have received a notification that their messages weren’t delivered. "

That's pretty scary to me. I would've hated to have gotten any e-mail alerts or payment due date reminders during that time.



Since they got a warning that the email address was temporarily unavailable (at least that's what they should have received) any well configured mailserver should have resend the email.


From a bounce I got:

    ...

    From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <mailer-daemon@googlemail.com>
    To: [me]@gmail.com
    X-Failed-Recipients: [someone else]@gmail.com
    Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
    Message-ID: <20cf30433ea07a2745049d4fe20e@google.com>
    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:12:14 +0000
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

    Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

         [someone else]@gmail.com

    Technical details of permanent failure: 
    Account disabled

    ----- Original message -----

    ...
Not exactly the kind of thing that would make you think resending would get the message through.


Yeah, scary would be no bounce, no delivery. Bouncing is relatively graceful.


even more graceful would be keeping track of bounces for 24 hours so you could at least tell someone what they missed if there's a cliche like this.


glitch!




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