reboot in single user

Rob r17fbsd at xxiii.com
Mon Jul 9 17:06:33 UTC 2007


Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
> How long will this take- as stopping  the daemons (spamd/clamd etcc..) will
> cause a halt in my incoming mail?

Only a temporary halt.  SMTP was designed for intermittent / flaky connections.  
The sending servers will just try again, for a few days typically,  if it fails on the initial attempt(s).

  -RW


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