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- From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Return and read receipts (was Re: Return-Receipt-To & forwarding...)
- Date: 2 Jan 1993 04:40:05 GMT
- Organization: Oregon State University, College of Oceanography
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- In article <davecb.725911218@yorku.ca> davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) writes:
- > This assumes store-and forward, something which is getting
- >less and less poplular at time passes, and was never part of
- >the RFC world anyway.
-
- Funny, Dave. Seems that store-and-forward is still a part of the "RFC
- world". I guess you have never seen sendmail fail to deliver a message
- and keep it in the mail queue until {it could|three days}.
-
- You're so lucky, never sending mail to a system that is down. Tell us
- all how you do it? Do you ping every recipient's host to make sure it is
- up before you send the mail? That doesn't guarantee that there is a
- working mail demon -- you must do a manual SMTP connection and just not
- count the times that you can't connect in your definition of
- "reliable".
-
- Or have you just never noticed it happening so it doesn't exist for
- you?
-
-