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Plus, what happens when the power goes out and now I can't receive email?
by jeffreyrogers 13y ago
Plus, what happens when the power goes out and now I can't receive email?
- dmm 13y agoEmail was created for a time when connections were expected to be unreliable. Email servers respond to a failure to connect by retrying at increasing intervals for several days.
- jeffreyrogers 13y agoAh, that makes sense. I wasn't aware that's how it worked.
- pwg 13y agoIf your power at home has gone out, then very likely one of these two items is also "off": 1) your internet connection endpoint 2) your wireless router At which point you could not read any of the emails that an external "service" might receive for you anyway. Plus, as another poster already stated, email servers retry several times to deliver a message (as required by the spec), so the email just waits in the senders queue until your power is back, and then arrives, a few hours late.