Re: why use sendmail?

[Simon Hepburn <sth@blueyonder.co.uk>]

dman wrote:

> The reason is that KMail is not a proper SMTP client.  The RFCs (821,
> 2821) state that if a message can't be delivered to the next server in
> charge, then it must keep the message and retry later.  It can't just
> say "oh, well" and give up.  KMail (along with Lookout and every other
> User Agent) doesn't do this.

In such a situation KMail keeps the undelivered message in the outbox. I 
don't think you could call that "giving up". The message is not simply lost 
in cyberspace. How does Kmail keeping the message and trying again later 
differ from what an mta does ?

-- 
Simon Hepburn.


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