On 2022-04-18 at 13:32:07 UTC-0400 (Mon, 18 Apr 2022 12:32:07 -0500) Larry M. Smith via mailop <[email protected]> is rumored to have said:
> Sorry, late to the game... > > On 4/17/2022, John Levine via mailop wrote: >> It appears that Tobias Fiebig via mailop <[email protected]> said: >>>> If your friends somehow believe that Gmail is the only mail provider in >>>> the world I suppose I am sorry for them but I don't understand why that is >>>> anyone else's problem. >>> >>> The idea is that you give away something for free, gain significant market >>> share (=network effect), and then get into a position where you can first >>> push standards (hello >>> MTA-STS), and later can migrate to a walled garden, ... >> >> Uh, what? Google follows public mail standards at least as well as >> their large competitors like YahAOL and Microsoft. You do not have to >> like MTA-STS, but it's an open IETF standard and there's a lot more >> providers than Google that use it. >> > > I'm going to disagree. To the best of my knowledge Yahoo, Vz, AOL, or > Microsoft do NOT re-queue messages after receiving a 5xx response -- Qmail > does. Did you mean "GMail?" FWIW, I've not seen GMail (or Qmail) do that. Do you know how to reproduce it? -- Bill Cole [email protected] or [email protected] (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
