Re: [IMail Forum] Delivery failure messages placed in queue?

[Len Conrad]

>It seems that iMail (6.03 under NT 4.0 SP6 or 2000) places delivery
>failure messages into the queue and thus they are only sent back to
>the user when the queue runs, which means user might wait 20-30
>minutes (or however long the queue timer is set to) to receive notice
>when they mistype a user or host name.

>Most systems don't do this. Does anyone else find this to be a design
>problem?

yes, undeliverable messages per RFC 821 should be announced immediately to 
sender rather than "retry time" later.

Len

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