On Sep 24, 2005, at 2:41 PM, Rob McEwen wrote:
Herb asked:
What makes you uncomfortable? There really are only
two issues:
1) Delay of legitimage email
2) Broken legitimate servers that won't resend
Herb,
Many web page event-driven e-mails may not have a re-try mechanism.
Those web page, event-driven e-mails should be submitting the form to
the web server from whence they came, and the web server should submit
the message to its local MTA. That local MTA, if the webmaster and the
postmaster are on the same page, should whitelist the web server.
Thus, the web server doesn't need to re-try. Re-trying can be left to
their local MTA. Then it's a question of "why is that MTA not
re-trying".
(and, frankly, if the web server is NOT going through it's local MTA,
then I think that qualifies as "misconfigured enough to be shunned by
any responsible postmaster of a remote MTA")
