Re: Exchange POP3 mail Check Time

Ben M. Schorr - MVP wrote:
Aloha Joe,

Fax has a lot of other shortcomings though. For one, unless both parties are using standard old fax machines, there is some effort/expense involved in setting up network faxing. And if one or the other IS using standard old fax machines then there is considerably more effort involved in sending/receiving the fax. Printing it, walking to the fax machine, dialing the number, scanning the pages...going to the fax machine, making sure there's enough paper in it, retrieving that paper....not to mention the cost of buying and maintaining the machines themselves.

And if it's long distance...you're going to have phone charges for the transmission.

E-mail is faster, cheaper and more convenient than fax in almost every instance. That's why fax, generally speaking, is dying. It's not dead...but it's got a bad cough.


Oh, agreed. Horses for courses. But a lot of people seem to think
email is somehow guaranteed instant if it's sent by SMTP. All that
SMTP guarantees is that the mail will either eventually be delivered
or the sender will be informed that it hasn't been. Even that negative
information can be delayed by days.

The yes or no is only immediate if you send directly to the destination,
and the destination is up and accepting mail, and there are no system
delays. Look at the size of attachments sent by mail these days, and
divide by the upload speed, allowing for contention and busy periods.
In the course of tracking down the delayed mail I mentioned earlier,
I studied the log of an SMTP session which lasted over an hour,
containing four messages to the suspect destination. Two of them got
through, but in the reverse order in which they were sent. The earlier
one was delayed by forty minutes, and that was just in Exchange.
.

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