On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:33:58PM -0600, David Champion wrote: > * On 07 Nov 2012, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 08:48:08PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > > server retrying if my SMTP server isn't running (or connected). That's > > > one of the reasons I'd quite like to move away from SMTP. It *should* > > > be OK but I'm relying on the other end to behave properly. > > > > It will. It has to. If it didn't, e-mail on the internet would be > > horribly unreliable. > > I hate to break it to you, but.... :) > > I've used IMAP pickup in the past and it's OK for some IMAP servers.
Right, we're talking about SMTP delivery to a machine that's sometimes down or unreachable... Very reliable. :) Presumably that's exactly why you're using SMTP to deal with your exchange problem! -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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