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Re: draft-atkins-smtp-traffic-control

2011-10-31 11:31:18

Steve Atkins <steve(_at_)blighty(_dot_)com> wrote:

Each delivery attempt consumes significant system resources, both at the
client and the server.

Maybe ten or twenty years ago.

If, for example, the client was continually deferred and retried every
minute,

That would be silly. (Still, some of my users run Exchange servers that do
this.)

Tony.
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