Mail handling while email server is offline

When the server is offline and there's email sent to an account on the server, it waits until the server is back online and then the email gets through. Which is pretty awesome. But how long can the server be offline before the email gets bounced back to the sender? (I assume it won't wait around forever, if there's a long outage.) Is the amount of time some kind of internet standard, or does it vary; if the latter, where does it come from?

Hi Angie33327,
If you are having issues sending email from Mail on your iMac, you may find the troubleshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3276
Regards,
- Brenden

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HT1349 My ipad2 closes the mail app while I am typing an email to send. Happens nearly every time.

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