On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, John C Klensin wrote: > --On Tuesday, August 10, 2010 09:48 -0700 Dave CROCKER > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As I recall, delivermail didn't do queuing. So, yes, the > > delivery attempt was immediate. > > > > Sendmail behaved the same way, for a first attempt, and did > > queuing only if that attempt failed. > > > > MMDF always did queuing first, spawning a delivery attempt > > afterward. (Submission and delivery were independent Unix > > processes.) > > And IIR, several of the small computer-based things, including > PC/TCP, would make a direct attempt to deliver and send mail to > what we would now call a submission server only if that single > direct delivery attempt failed.
Dave and I are talking about server side processing. You seem to be talking about client retry logic. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ IRISH SEA: WESTERLY OR NORTHWESTERLY, 4 OR 5 INCREASING 5 OR 6, OCCASIONALLY 7 LATER IN NORTH. SLIGHT OR MODERATE. SHOWERS. GOOD.
