Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

Electronic Mail Issues

Mail is not sent to any mail spool file on a machine while the machine is suspended. Typically, if mail can not be delivered for more than three days, then the mail is returned to the sender as undeliverable.

If you suspend your system for three days or longer, and your machine has a local mail spool, you might not receive messages that the mail application has sent back to the sender.