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Re: retry question

2008-08-05 16:19:12

SM wrote:

If you are going to temporary fail the transaction because the first recipient got a 4yz reply, you may end up never being able to attempt a delivery for the other recipients.

True, but there is at least one MUA - TBIRD that behaves this way. I have not used Outlook in a long time to recall if it had similar behavior. I will lean to the side that it did because its quite possible the latter designed TBIRD researched and borrowed the logic or probably felt it would be easier design for this human usage to make the correction than to try to behave like a real MTA with redundant retries. Although, there is the design option it could issue a prompt:

    "Do you wish to add the temporary rejected recipient in the
     CC list into your 'Send Later Folder'?"

It wouldn't work well for automated backend MTAs.


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Hector Santos, CTO
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