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> While offline, emails sent to you will not be delivered. This does not, however, mean that they are lost. ... the sender’s email server will periodically retr
by wyldfire 8y ago
> While offline, emails sent to you will not be delivered. This does not, however, mean that they are lost. ... the sender’s email server will periodically retry sending the email at a later time.
It could be interesting to see whether MTAs evolve away from that design feature/constraint. Email seems ever-more centralized. Then again, it's a great robustness feature with a very small downside if any, so hopefully it's just my paranoia.