On 3/9/2009, Costin Gu_ (costi...@gmail.com) wrote: > yes, it's true that people expect instant delivery; however I was > thinking at short delays such as 5 minutes, since most regrettable > errors are discovered within the next few seconds following the event, > so keeping the mail in queue for extra five minutes wouldn't bother > the majority. > > note that I didn't mention that I actually _want_ to do this, but this > has come up as a proposed solution to these kind of people with whom I > am interacting - I am supporting the IT in a field where being > computer literate is not a mandatory skill for a manager.
This is actually an interesting idea... but I think it should only be available on an opt-in basis, where the end user understands that all of their mail will be subject to this delay... I wonder how hard some kind of automatic script processing would be, where the user could just add a 'RECALL' to the subject beginning, and have postfix delete the message from the queue if it found a match with the sender and subject and then deliver a confirmation, or simply send a 'Too late' response if there is no match... -- Best regards, Charles
