On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 03:28:33AM -0700, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > On lun, 2005-02-28 at 21:04 +0100, Tijl Houtbeckers wrote: > >Jabber is instant, near real time. So this means you're get a near real > >time "instant failure", if your message can not be delivered. This opposed > >to email where failure isn't "instant" at all, if you send a message it > >can stay in the queue for up to 2 weeks and there is nothing you can do > >about it. This is why SMTP uses a store-and-forward architecture. > > jabberd has offline storage for when a user is offline. The message gets > silently stored, and delivered once the user logs in. This does not > happen when the server is offline. To me, this seems a fairly > straightforward double-standard.
Yes, but when the server is online, the entity that sent the message gets an error back. Jabber is not (by default) store-and-forward, unlike most e-mail systems! I don't see this as a double-standard. -- Groetjes, Ralphm _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
