[Answer also to ML]
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:23:46 +0100
"David Bouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only thing that makes me curious is that the sender's mailer will have
> to keep waiting for a response (code) till the mail has been completely
> forwarded:
[...]
> Isn't there any risks of the senders mailer timing out waiting for the
> smtp-forward to complete. ?
Yes, that may happen if the connection is too slow for the size of the
message. In that case the recipient can get it into it's Inbox (even
more than one copy of the message, if it times out several times) but
the sender still thinks it has not been delivered.
Hanno
