No, ASSP has no capability to do store-and-forward. The "P" in ASSP 
is Proxy - which means it just proxies the connection through to the 
MTA. If the MTA is down, then the message does not get delivered. But 
I agree with others here - if the MTA is not answering VRFY requests, 
and ASSP is set up to VRFY against it, then ASSP should issue a 
temporary fail and let the sender try again later.

At 03:51 PM 4/13/2010, Scott Haneda wrote:

>This is a very strange change in behavior, and I think this would 
>cause many people problems.  If the the SMTP MTA that ASSP is 
>talking to is unavailable, ASSP essentially should act as a 
>secondary MX (sort of).  ASSP should simply queue messages.  It can 
>continue to block and work on messages, but those that pass all 
>tests, should sit and wait for the destination MTA to come back online.
>
>Unless I am reading this wrong, which I really hope I am, this 
>means, if your ASSP and remote MTA are on different machines, then 
>even a server reboot will cause messages during the time it takes 
>the machines to reboot to be allowed.
>
>There is no guarantee ASSP is on the same machine, let alone the 
>same subnet.  Any small glitches is a window in which VRFY or RCPT 
>is now unavailable.  Those messages all pass, most of which will be 
>user not known, thereby generating a bounce.
>
>Do I understand this correctly?
>--
>Scott * If you contact me off list replace talklists@ with scott@ *
>
> > - if VRFY or RCPT TO is used to verify the recipient address
> > and the MTA is not available the address was rejected - it is
> > now accepted in this case
>
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