[H-GEN] Humbug machine problems and lost email

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Bruce Campbell <bc at humbug.org.au> writes:

> If a given message hasn't arrived at its destination, or been
> returned to the nominated sender within the de-facto default (pretty
> much 7 days thanks to Sendmail), it has effectively vanished from
> this world, and there really isn't anyone that you can try to claim
> insurance from (unlike regular mail, most email doesn't have a
> reliable 'registered post' option ;) ).

My understanding is that some part of the behemoth that is X500 (or
maybe X400) supports guaranteed (FSVO "guaranteed" I guess) delivery.
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