Where does email go?

[karhu]

When BH email is down and you get nothing from your forwarding accounts, where does that email actually go? Will it come through when things are working again?

I sent myself several "test" emails which should have forwarded back to me. They went somewhere, because they were not bounced back to my sbcglobal account.

[techgy]

I would expect that if the server that's hosting your BH mail account was down, then any mail would be lost. However, if I was you I'd contact BH support and ask them. This would depend upon the problem that BH was having and what was affected.

[KimberlyCreative]

I'm no techie, and I'm sure someone who is will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the originating mail server will keep trying to deliver your mail for a certain period of time (could be hours, could be days) before giving up and bouncing the message back to the originator. It seems to me that different servers have different limits for how long they'll keep trying to deliver a message. In any event -- either the mail will eventually be delivered, or it will bounce back to the sender.

[ds4081]

I'm no techie, and I'm sure someone who is will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that the originating mail server will keep trying to deliver your mail for a certain period of time (could be hours, could be days) before giving up and bouncing the message back to the originator. It seems to me that different servers have different limits for how long they'll keep trying to deliver a message. In any event -- either the mail will eventually be delivered, or it will bounce back to the sender.

This is how it usually works, in my own experience.