/ David Champion wrote on Wed 7.Nov'12 at 16:33:58 -0600 / > * On 07 Nov 2012, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 08:48:08PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > > server retrying if my SMTP server isn't running (or connected). That's > > > one of the reasons I'd quite like to move away from SMTP. It *should* > > > be OK but I'm relying on the other end to behave properly. > > > > It will. It has to. If it didn't, e-mail on the internet would be > > horribly unreliable. > > I hate to break it to you, but.... :) > > I've used IMAP pickup in the past and it's OK for some IMAP servers. A > year or two ago my employer moved my mailbox to MS Exchange. Exchange > doesn't (necessarily?) hand you the exact e-mail it received. It > parses incoming mail, stores the parsed components, and reconstructs > the message the best it can figure when you pick it up via IMAP or POP. > Along the way it might modify or remove some components for no good > reason; for example, multipart/alternative with text/plan and text/html > invisibly becomes just a text/html message. I've also heard of its > breaking crypto, although I haven't seen that myself for a while. > > So I forward my mail via SMTP away from my employer now. > > -- > David Champion • d...@bikeshed.us
Yes i think the benefits of using your own smtp delivery are worth it.
