On Wednesday 28 September 2005 14:23, Steve Lamb wrote: > Why should I when the program has to handle failure anyway? The > argument always seems to be "The MTA can handle failures." OK, and > when the MTA fails what, the program sending mail is just supposed to > route it to /dev/null? Even mutt, the current MUA de jour of the > die-hard unixeistas has it's own primative queuing in place in case of > MTA failure.
Every MUA I've seen has an "outbox" where mail sits until it can be SMTP'd away. Is that what you mean by primitive queueing? -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
