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Re:How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your i... by ars on Saturday October 06, 2012 @09:38PM (#4622316)
That's not true. It should either send the email to the recipient or return it to sender. But it should never just drop the message (except for bounces which can be dropped since there is nowhere to send them if delivery fails).
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Re:How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your i... by danielweber on Saturday October 06, 2012 @10:13PM (#4622377)
I think you and the parent are using different meanings of "guarantee."

Yes, everything in the protocol leads to the fact that nothing should drop an email unless it has passed responsibility of it to another server which has accepted the message.

In practice, lots of times things don't work.

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Re:How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your i... by ams6110 on Sunday October 07, 2012 @01:24PM (#4623776)
Yes, one misconfigured server between source and destination can "eat" email and you'll never be the wiser. Doesn't happen often, but it can and the protocol does not detect it.
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