[IRCServices] Error in mailtransport

[Ian R. Justman]

Craig Edwards wrote:
> i'd recommend using smtp rather than sendmail if you're doing this, so 
> that your mailer daemon handles mail retries for you. If your own local 
> mailserver is down this is more of a problem than a remote mailserver 
> being down and will probably be fixed much faster.

Given your explanation, wouldn't it make more sense to use sendmail to 
submit?  The sendmail process would submit it to your local machine's 
queue, then the MTA on that machine would either send it out or 
smarthost it, depending on the configuration.  And if the remote server 
or smart host were down, the message would be in the local machine's 
MTA's queue, per what Andy said.  It's better to let your MTA handle 
queueing of mail since that's specifically what it's designed to do.  ;)

The only issue I would see with the "sendmail" method is that it may not 
work with all MTAs.  Sendmail, Postfix and Exim probably fare the best 
at sendmail-style submission.  I'm not 100% sure about qmail; I don't 
use it myself for... various reasons. ;)  (Andy will likely concur with 
me for many of the same reasons.)

--Ian R. Justman, Co-Founder and Postmaster, The EsperNet IRC Network.

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