On 10/14/2014 1:58 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: > Well, this really is OT for debian-users, but.... Turns out that SMTP > WAS/IS intended to be reliable.
Reliable, absolutely. 100% reliable? That simply isn't possible when people are involved in the equation (people mis-configure servers - whether accidentally, through ignorance, or intentionally (just because that is the way they want it). > I'd always lumped SMTP in the category of unreliable protocols, w/o > guaranteed delivery The protocol itself is extremely reliable. It is what people *do* with it that can cause it to become less reliable/resilient. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/543e4da8.2060...@libertytrek.org
