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I think the authors of SMTP had a healthy attitude towards server uptimes: Retries continue until the message is transmitted or the sender gives up; the
by zaik 1mo ago
I think the authors of SMTP had a healthy attitude towards server uptimes:
Retries continue until the message is transmitted or the sender gives
up; the give-up time generally needs to be at least 4-5 days.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.4.1 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.4....
- pocksuppet 1mo agoAt the time, most email was either local to the host (big mainframe in the basement) or transferred once a day through scheduled dial-up connections during off-peak phone hours
- creshal 1mo agoWhich is a good fit to a distributed, offline first version control system, if you use it like that.
- donmcronald 1mo agoI saw an application once about 25 years ago that was built on SMTP for communication. I think it was an inter library loan system, but can't remember for sure. I was a pretty smart way of not having to worry much about redundancy in the communications.