----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl S. Gutekunst" <csg(_at_)alameth(_dot_)org>
To: "Steve Atkins" <steve(_at_)blighty(_dot_)com>
Cc: "SMTP Interest Group" <ietf-smtp(_at_)imc(_dot_)org>
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 4:49 AM
Subject: Re: SMTP traffic control
Steve Atkins wrote:
It would be nice if the server could say "give me a minute to get my
stuff together and come back", have the client retry in 60 seconds and
get the mail accepted for delivery - with a delay of a minute or so,
rather than a delay of 30 minutes. The server gets to shed load, the
client gets to dump a message out of it's queue and the human
correspondents see fast, in-order mail delivery rather than slow,
out-of-order delivery.
That's the end-user visible part of the thought behind
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-atkins-smtp-traffic-control/
anyway.
I'd support that proposal. I might even implement it.
Unfortunately, the dominant conversation seems to be around an SMTP
response that only applies to greylisting. I'd never use that or support
it, it's such a teeny-tiny corner case, especially in the B-to-B world
where I live.
+1