[jdev] Re: deferred delivery

[Stephen Marquard]

Oleg Motienko wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> What's about deferred delivery of messages via XMPP ?
> 
> For example, user1 at domain1 send message to user2 at domain2 and server at
> domain2 is down for some time. In SMTP such message is waiting for
> some time in spool on server at domain1 and user1 at domain1 recieve
> messages from postmaster about deferring delivery.

Generally server1 will bounce the packet back to user1 with an error 
code if it can't connect to server2 within a relatively short timeframe.

If server1 sends the message to server2 successfully but user2 is not 
online, server2 will typically put the message in the offline queue, and 
it will be delivered to user2 when user2 next logs in.

Regards
Stephen