[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > One frequently-proposed (and possibly implemented) solution for such
> > time-critical email is to avoid queuing the message in the first place.
> > Instead, you call qmail-remote directly with your message. If it succeeds,
> > you know immediately that the message reached the MX you pointed it at. If
> > it fails -- then you can queue it, if you think it might still get there
> > before the information is obsolete.
> That might help the >0.1% of the population that composes and submits email
> on a Unix system that has qmail-remote installed, but what of the other poor
> sods?
They're out of luck; they're trying to do reliable, realtime communication
with a protocol which was never designed for either. They need to either
change their tools, change their requirements, or pick up the phone.
Charles
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