On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Stanier, Alan M wrote:
> > A message that you sent was delivered to some, but not all, of its
> > recipients.
> > Those which failed were:
>
> Ah, but you can't say that! The other recipients might currently be
> deferred and will be tried again at a later time. At that time they
> might succeed or they might fail. Exim of course knows whether there are
> any deferred, so I guess it could tailor its working...
Far far too complicated. It would only make matters worse.
> Also, Exim doesn't actually know whether mail sent to a remote host has
> in fact been "delivered to a recipient". The best it can accurately say
> is "was delivered to a remote MTA".
Hmm. Just what we need. Transmission Status Notification. Yuck!
(though there are some times when I would like such a thing, I don't
want users to have it.)
-j
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