Not necessarily. The way electronic mail is delivered isn't much different to the way physical mail is delivered.
i.e. it's just put in the letter box, and up to the post office to determine if its valid and bounce an error, or just lose the mail or whatever. Where post office is === smtp service in this context. Most smtp servers do little checking on the mail at receive time, it is just put in a queue. A send process retrieves messages from the queue and processes them. Various types of errors can have the mail waiting around for days before you get a rejected message (and its configurable) . On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 18:49 +0200, smurfd wrote: > Hey, was just wondering if anyone else than me have had a wrong (non > existing host) as a smtp server without getting any kind of errors? (im > using the 1.4.5 version of evolution that comes with Debian sarge) > > Anyway, this is what happened to me. i Thought i sent alot of messages, > but i didnt get any response, so some of them i sent to that i know in > person, i rang up, and they hadnt recived any mail. then i saw that i > had .com instead of .net in my smtp adress.. clumsy, yes. but there > _should_ a errormessage.. especially if the host isnt available :) > > peace! > > /smurfd aka. Nicklas Boman > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
