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Isn't it better in nearly every situation to know something has failed immediately, rather than get a delivery failure notice a couple of days later?
by thejohnconway 7y ago
Isn't it better in nearly every situation to know something has failed immediately, rather than get a delivery failure notice a couple of days later?
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- ajross 7y agoIn general mail servers will reply back with a failure notice within an hour or so. This isn't a standardized behavior and timeouts and retry semantics differ.
- fogetti 7y agoThe whole point of email is fire and forget
- pmlnr 7y agoIf it's a temporary outage, eg. network loss of a datacenter, email is not lost. It will be delivered with a delay, tried over and over again, until the timeout limit is reached. Due to the async nature the delay is not a problem.