On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 4:02 PM Grant Taylor
<gtay...@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>
> On 4/6/20 1:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > More often than not, yes.  The main exception I've seen are sites
> > that email you verification codes, such as some sorts of "two-factor"
> > implementations (whether these are really two-factor I'll set aside
> > for now).  Many of these services will retry, but some just give up
> > after one attempt.
>
> I believe that's a perfect example of services that should send email
> through a local MTA that manages a queue and retries mail delivery.
> There is no need for this type of queuing logic and complexity to be in
> the application.  Especially if the application is otherwise stateless
> and runs for the duration of a single HTTP request.

Sure, but:

1.  We're talking about people who think email is a great solution to 2FA.
and
2.  Why use a standard MTA when you can build one yourself?  I believe
this is a corollary to Zawinski's Law.

-- 
Rich

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