[Asrg] MUA as MSA or MTA (was Re: What are the IPs that sends mail for a domain?)

"J.D. Falk" <jdfalk-lists@cybernothing.org> Mon, 22 June 2009 17:08 UTC

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Alessandro Vesely wrote:

 > Being suspicious about their ESPs, those users may prefer to
> deliver directly whenever possible. That is the only reason I see for
> attempting a direct delivery first, and it is a largely suboptimal
> solution anyway (e.g. it provides no reliable storage for sent messages.)

What you're describing, here, is a vanishingly tiny minority of users.

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J.D. Falk