Re: The errant email

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 16:24:16 +0100, Dave Baker wrote:


Emails don't miraculously get delayed for exactly one hour.

Actually I suspect it is pretty common for emails to get delayed by one or
more even hours.

As I understand it, typically the way SMTP transfer works is that when a
failure to connect or transfer correctly occurs the transaction is put into
a retry queue to be retried for transmission after some configurable period
of time (and for some configurable number of times before a permanent
failure is recorded and reported to the sender).

A common retry interval would be 1 hour.

The stupidity here is depending on standard email for this kind of vital
transmission. But this is something that all parties agreed to apparently.
I guess none of them had competent IT people to point out this issue?

--
Brian Sullivan
Courses by Wire (http://www.coursesbywire.com)
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