Re: [Assp-user] Mailhop Backup MX?

[Jeroen v. A. <kr...@at...>]

Hill, Brett wrote:
> My smtp server is setup to try for 24 hours.  After that it fails.  My
> endusers demand a 1 day turn around.  They don't want to be sitting
> around for 3 days waiting to find out an important email couldn't be
> delivered.  I think that's a good enough reason don't you?  I'm sure I'm
> not the only one with a 24 hour retry/fail time.

It's almost always a bad idea to submit to the whims of users who likely 
  have less of a clue. Many people expect email to be a guaranteed 
service, it never has been and never will. If you want guaranteed 
communication the phone or real life works very well.

If an email can't be delivered you first get a temporary failure, so 
users ARE notified in way less than 24 hours. If they can't properly 
interpret a (temporary) delivery failure, well then I wonder what the 
hell they are doing having a job involving the use of computers. They're 
probably the same ones who'd respond to spam.

Greetings,
Jeroen