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- Subject: Re: Summary: Problem with /bin/mail...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.034204.23207@rata.vuw.ac.nz>
- From: tony@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Tony Martindale)
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:42:04 GMT
- References: <nkdpn0c@sgi.sgi.com> <1992Jul24.032024.22721@rata.vuw.ac.nz>
- Organization: C.S.C., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Keywords: /bin/mail
- Summary: Completion of my previous posting...
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- In article <1992Jul24.032024.22721@rata.vuw.ac.nz> tony@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Tony Martindale) writes:
- >
- >In article <nkdpn0c@sgi.sgi.com> roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (roberts) writes:
- >>Tony.Martindale@comp.vuw.ac.nz writes:
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >>> Again, if anyone can shed any more light on this it would be
- >>> appreciated. I would also like to see SGI take responsibility for
- >>> what has been done to /bin/mail and release a
- >>> fixed/backward-compatible version.
- >>
- >>I will gladly take responsibility for having made message delivery via
- >>/bin/mail more reliable. Note that reliable does not mean "doesn't bounce."
- >>As stated by Eric Allman in the design goals section of the document
- >>"SENDMAIL - An Internet Mail Router":
- >>
- >> Message delivery should be reliable, in the sense of guaranteeing
- >> that every message is correctly delivered or at least brought to the
- >> attention of a human for correct disposal; no message should ever be
- >> completely lost.
- >>
- >>A misdelivered message is as bad as lost. It is better to bounce than
- >>to lose. It may cause headaches for administrators, but it will result
- >>in more reliable mail.
- >
- > As I conceded above, bouncing in the
-
- % For some reason my full response was not posted, from
- % here onward it should read:
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- There are lots of things that can cause mail to fail, are you going
- to address all of them? As I conceded above, bouncing the mail in the
- context of your lost messages is the best thing to do.
-
- >A broken/backward-compatible version will be available in a future release
- >for use by those who don't mind the possibility of misdelivered mail.
-
- Thanks, hopefully it will be available before our next upgrade.
-
- > - Robert Stephens
- >
- >---
- >The above comments are entirely my own. They do not necessarily represent
- >the views or opinions of Silicon Graphics Inc.
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