Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?
On Tue 30 Aug 2016 at 15:09:28 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 August 2016 14:59:42 Henning Follmann wrote:
> > However, why email is still reliable, because a proper setup provides you
> > with a well defined error messages (in case it is not delivered).
>
> We have different definitions of reliable!! Being told a day or two later
> that your email didn't get there because .. is very little consolation, if
> you actually wanted it to get there, and that is only if the receiving SMTP
> server returns the email with an error message, and doesn't just drop it.
You could send mail directly if you set up a mail server.
However, if you are bothered about the receiving SMTP server accepting
and dropping the message it wouldn't matter because you wouldn't get
any feedback. But you wouldn't get feedback using your ISP's smarthost.
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