Re: [exim] Retry hint left over after successful delivery

On Tue, June 1, 2010 12:12, W B Hacker wrote:
> Welll. International Private Leased networks, as at the time I retired in
> 1994, were held to a downtime of around two seconds a year.

Impressive, that's 99.9999937% availability.

> In practice, however, smtp punches well above its weight 'often enough' -
> just
> as voice telephony does - as to sustain a user-community *expectation* of
> near-instantaneous delivery, and near-as-dammit all the time.


Oh totally, but if we as mail administrators say anything other than
"Email is not instant messaging, if you need instant messaging don't use
email" then we're just creating a problem for ourselves in the long run.