> > If I send an email to mother saying "I'll be home for lunch" I'd like to tell my
> > MTA to drop/bounce the mail after that event has occurred.
>
> One frequently-proposed (and possibly implemented) solution for such
> time-critical email is to avoid queuing the message in the first place.
> Instead, you call qmail-remote directly with your message. If it succeeds,
> you know immediately that the message reached the MX you pointed it at.
> If it fails -- then you can queue it, if you think it might still get there
> before the information is obsolete.
That might help the >0.1% of the population that composes and submits email
on a Unix system that has qmail-remote installed, but what of the other poor
sods?
Regards.
