[TriLUG] seeking advice for a bullet-proof mail server

[Brandon L. Newport]

Tanner is absolutely correct...the RFC for email talks about 48 hours if
I remember correctly.

-brandon


On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 10:40 -0500, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:34:18 -0500, Ryan Leathers
> <ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com> wrote:
> >  Some number of the mail messages arriving will be the type that must
> > be delivered in near real time.
> 
> Then you shouldn't be using SMTP. Period.  SMTP was never meant to be a 
> real-time protocol.  If these are your requirements, you should look into using 
> something like Jabber instead, which is a real-time protocol (in the
> sense you're
> talking about).
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner