josh wrote:what's going on is that I've moved offline the stupendously massively enormous queue that built up. It's too much for the server to handle -- without it, the server is running very well, and I imagine that all new mail is getting through very quickly.
True, I know that very well. But the strange part is that the test addresses show in message database. Message got lost when it was coming to my email from SG.
But now everything is working again fine. I still believe there is some kind of technical glitch or bug. Because it's ok if mail doesn't get trough to SG after offline time. But if it get's lost when coming "out" from SG, then there is something wrong. If out going queue is going to get too long (spool full or similar), system should perevent new mail getting to it.
Btw, I didn't use gmail. I used normal finnish ISP and Eudora client. And I'm very familiar with email technology. My ISP did sent notification that mail to SG is queud, and I don't need to resend messages. (That's when system is down more than 4 hours). But I also know that after message resend time expires my ISP will also send notification which tell's that message didn't get trough. And I never ever received that message. Also fact that address database contains addresses of those lost messages, it also tells that SG got that message. Something happened with outgoing queue. That's my humble opinion without knowing any exact SG facts. I just see the results.
And that's now happened twice, so I'm very sure about this.