The email server is very reliable, in the same way that an Apache web server or MySQL database is reliable. It's the script pulling data over the network, pars

The email server is very reliable, in the same way that an Apache web server or MySQL database is reliable. It's the script pulling data over the network, parsing it, developers updating it, etc, where the instability comes in. And don't forget the edge cases where somebody uses weird encoding, a large email with attachments, a client that formats it in weird ways, etc. I probably took your comment way too seriously.