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!

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