[geeks] Email experts?

[Big Endian]

>[ On Wednesday, January 9, 2002 at 12:04:48 (-0500), Big Endian wrote: ]
>>  Subject: Re: [geeks] Email experts?
>>
>>  Simple enough... BUT there are complications... the app servers
>>  connect directly to the relay.  The relay has to release the session
>>  before the message is delivered or it kills the response of the app
>>  server.
>
>I don't see the problem.  SMTP _requires_ that the message be fully and
>completely accepted on the relay box before it begins delivering the
>message on its next hop.

Sendmail, when doing direct delivery( the default) attempts to send 
the message onto the next hop before it closes the session.  There 
are various reasons we're using sendmail the least of which is that 
our chief programmer insists.  If we can make it work with something 
else ( qmail and postfix didn't work) then great.  Right now we use 
sendmail on deferred delivery (queues everything) and sort the queue 
every five minutes using various headers and the destination domain 
as criteria.

daniel
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