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- From: sdorner@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Steve Dorner)
- Subject: Re: PowerBook 170 <--> Ethernet <--> Sun ..... HELP
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.235817.10482@qualcomm.com>
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- Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:58:17 GMT
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- nick@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
- > SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol; how mail gets around the Internet.
- > Requires the machines that talk it to be up most of the time.
- >
- >Not necessarily; I can have mail delivered to me over the Internet and not
- >be connected, so long as there's an MX record for me upstream, and the
- >mail holding service will turn round the SMTP connection and deliver mail
- >to me when I connect.
-
- In theory, that's true. In practice, the TURN command is rarely
- implemented, and few systems are willing to hold mail for more
- than 2 or three days. One long wekend, and your mail is history.
-
- I've redirected follow-ups to comp.sys.mac.comm, where this thread
- is the least inappropriate.
- --
- Steve Dorner, Qualcomm, Inc.
- Taking arms and by opposing end them, definitely.
-