Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 20:44 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
Most ISPs offer email service along with the connection package. Even
if you run your own server, using the ISP as an outbound relay should
make sure that deliveries always succeed quickly.
You missed the point: If you were off-line, you have no connection to
your ISP's SMTP server, your mail client will not send, and cannot send
your mail if your PC is off.
On the other hand, when you have a local SMTP server, client computers
can send mail to the queue, log-off and shut down. Their mail will be
sent, when it can.
The point I missed is why "when it can" would ever be longer than
sendmail's default timeout. If you are counting on this to be usable,
wouldn't you kick off a connection and a queue run more often than that?
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Les Mikesell
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