Dave Warren wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sander Holthaus wrote:
A tempfail is not a disaster in most scenarios. You may not be able to
receive mail until it is fixed, but you still get the mail after it is
fixed.
I think that attitude works fine in trivially small email environments.
I don't think it works at all in environments where you've got an
enterprise email system in a mission critical environment, where having
an email delayed significantly can have financial implications.
If having an email delayed causes significant financial implications,
you've got more serious underlying issues. SMTP is a best-effort
process, there is absolutely no guarantee of delivery at all, let alone
timely delivery.
This is a very naive or at least uninformed position to take on the
monetary significance of email. It is not that way in much of the world
- certainly not in any business I've been involved with in the last 10
years.
Can I just suggest Ebay and its millions of clients as a point to
ponder? Email commerce is a huge part of the industry I'm in as well.
Earnings and expenditures in thousands of dollars per minute just from
email traffic is such that any email failure is not something that can
wait until Monday morning.
dp
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