Re: SMTP slow???

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:39 PM 5/28/96 -0700, Paul E. Hoffman wrote:
>>Take the small trading partner that does not have a permanent connection.
>>Where does his EMail/EDI sit in the mail queues? If on his providers mail
>>server, then that provider can very easily have legal obligations for
>>guaranteed delivery.
>
>Good point: his ISP is holding his mail. I thought you were concerned with
>the hops along the way with unrelated companies. Yes, in the case of
>companies without persistent connections, there is some ISP responsibility
>if there is mail in Company X's inbox and the ISP's hard drive crashes and
>they go to yesterday's backup. Mumble...

BINGO

>>Of course, the small trading partner could run his own SMTP engine that,
>>when connected to the net, goes out and hits all of the regular trading
>>partners...
>
>It doesn't need to do this: it just has to be up at the designated IP
>address when all of the trading partners retry sending. However, if I saw
>an outgoing order for a trading partner sitting in my outgoing queue for
>very long, I'd have questions about that partner. Mumble...

And how many ISPs are giving dial up users dedicated IP addresses these days?

>>>Or, I think for safety, no "enroute". It is easy to build in no hops for
>>>mission-critical partners. Hops are OK for non-critical pairs, but receipts
>>>would be strongly advised.
>>
>>You always have your own firewalls to get in your way too...
>
>Yes, but you supposedly have control over them. They're inside the
>demarkation of "us" and "them".

HA!  It is us and US.  Appearantly you have not worked in corporate US ;)


Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corporation
(810) 758-8212