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I'm sure you can get a more in-depth technical explanation out of someone here, but to give you a high level: Email today is very, very reliable. If you are no

I'm sure you can get a more in-depth technical explanation out of someone here, but to give you a high level: Email today is very, very reliable. If you are not getting his emails the only reasonable cause would be that they're getting caught in a spam filter somewhere. Of course if you're receiving emails from him at all, that's pretty unlikely. There's nothing he could send over (like an old sent email) that would prove what he's saying. Email is easily forged and he could cook up a fake 'sent' email in a couple minutes if he felt he had to. Just sounds like he's unreliable. I would suggest you replace him post haste.

olefoo 16y ago
> Just sounds like he's unreliable. I would suggest you replace him post haste. And dishonest. Which makes it even more imperative that you find someone more suitable.
rlpb 16y ago
> Email today is very, very reliable. Not in my experience. Email is as reliable as the weakest link in the chain. The weakest link is often the other party's email system which was set up years ago, buggy and not maintained very well. Amongst small businesses, misconfiguration is very common and much buck passing goes on as few of those involved have the understanding to diagnose a fault. Lame DNS delegations are particularly common which can cause the same DNS lookup to sometimes fail and sometimes succeed. However, I think that most suppliers would take immediate extra steps if it appears that their emails aren't getting through. If this is happening repeatedly then I don't think that unreliable email is the reason.
- mbenjaminsmith 16y ago
  I haven't experienced any of those issues but I'll take your word for it. I have seen a similar problem with a DNS setup on a site. Almost every second request would throw an error. Turned out to be a two separate, conflicting records for the same address.

olefoo 16y ago

> Just sounds like he's unreliable. I would suggest you replace him post haste. And dishonest. Which makes it even more imperative that you find someone more suitable.

rlpb 16y ago

> Email today is very, very reliable. Not in my experience. Email is as reliable as the weakest link in the chain. The weakest link is often the other party's email system which was set up years ago, buggy and not maintained very well. Amongst small businesses, misconfiguration is very common and much buck passing goes on as few of those involved have the understanding to diagnose a fault. Lame DNS delegations are particularly common which can cause the same DNS lookup to sometimes fail and sometimes succeed. However, I think that most suppliers would take immediate extra steps if it appears that their emails aren't getting through. If this is happening repeatedly then I don't think that unreliable email is the reason.

mbenjaminsmith 16y ago
I haven't experienced any of those issues but I'll take your word for it. I have seen a similar problem with a DNS setup on a site. Almost every second request would throw an error. Turned out to be a two separate, conflicting records for the same address.