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HTTP is different than SMTP or NNTP. A phone could work as a nice personal mailhost, if power management issues could be solved.
by drdaeman 3y ago
HTTP is different than SMTP or NNTP. A phone could work as a nice personal mailhost, if power management issues could be solved.
- dTal 3y agoIt's true, I was imagining some something more sophisticated than HTTP. But I guess the article wasn't.
- TZubiri 3y agoTrue. The SMTP has provisions that account for the host server being powered off, a personal computer was a reasonable host for this protocol. The sending client is supposed to retry if the receiving server is down.
- duskwuff 3y ago> The SMTP has provisions that account for the host server being powered off But it's still built with the expectation that the recipient host will usually be available, and that unavailability is a transient condition -- a failure to contact the recipient SMTP server is a noisy failure, and, after the first few retries, most servers back off to one attempt every 8 hours. Mail servers which are only sporadically available would require some fairly substantial rearchitecture.
- TZubiri 3y agoNope. It was written to account for personal computers to send mail to personal computers, which could be reasonably powered off nightly. The noisy failure is probably not a part of the standard, more likely a recent trend.