First, well said.
On 8/19/20 2:27 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote:
Apologies for my unintended verbosity. My subconscious _really_
wanted to point out that SMTP is (generally) RELIABLE. ;-)
Second, this is an understatement.
Per protocol specification, SMTP is EXTREMELY robust.
It will retry delivery, nominally once an hour, for up to five (or
seven) days. That's 120-168 delivery attempts.
Further, SMTP implementations MUST (RFC sense of the word) deliver a
notification back to the sender if the implementation was unable to
delivery a message.
SMTP's ability to deliver email without end-to-end connectivity is
almost unmatched. UUCP and NNTP are there with it.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
