Re: OT: Re: Recipient validation - WAS: Re: Moderated posts?
On 10/14/2014 1:58 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> Well, this really is OT for debian-users, but.... Turns out that SMTP
> WAS/IS intended to be reliable.
Reliable, absolutely. 100% reliable? That simply isn't possible when
people are involved in the equation (people mis-configure servers -
whether accidentally, through ignorance, or intentionally (just because
that is the way they want it).
> I'd always lumped SMTP in the category of unreliable protocols, w/o
> guaranteed delivery
The protocol itself is extremely reliable. It is what people *do* with
it that can cause it to become less reliable/resilient.
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