Tanner is absolutely correct...the RFC for email talks about 48 hours if I remember correctly.
-brandon On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:40 -0500, Tanner Lovelace wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:34:18 -0500, Ryan Leathers > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some number of the mail messages arriving will be the type that must > > be delivered in near real time. > > Then you shouldn't be using SMTP. Period. SMTP was never meant to be a > real-time protocol. If these are your requirements, you should look into using > something like Jabber instead, which is a real-time protocol (in the > sense you're > talking about). > > Cheers, > Tanner -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
