[AccessD] Way OT: Brains Trust Q - Mail Server Services

I replied to Darren  off-list saying much the same thing.  I do a monthly 3000+ PDF invoice 
run for a client in a similar fashion.

-- 
Stuart

On 18 May 2010 at 9:32, Gustav Brock wrote:

> Hi Darren
> 
> In our experience, sending invoices as attached PDFs via e-mail is no
> different from sending any other e-mail. It will probably arrive at
> the receiver but you cannot be sure. Also, no outside service can
> change this as the uncertain element in the chain is the receiving
> mail server - if it thinks your e-mail is spam or if the receiving
> account is retracted, lacks storage space, or in any other way is out
> of service, your mail will either be lost or redirected to a
> postmaster or junk account where further delivery is by the mercy of
> the postmaster which quite often is imaginary. 
> 
...snip...

> Finally, any decent SMTP server - including the simple SMTP service of any
> Windows server - is capable of creating logs, holding undeliverable mails,
> and returning error messages to sender for failed mail.
> 
...snip...

> You don't indicate your volume, but we have a client sending out hundreds
> of mails each month with quite large attached pictures, reports, or
> invoices using the SMTP-service running on an in-house Windows Server 2000
> and a standard ADSL-line.