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by coreyw 2586 days ago
I also used to work at message control. The architecture to support all of the legacy and new technology for email was very hard. Also architecting a system to ensure that it would never go down completely was a large challenge.

You also have to understand how providers deal with email to make sure delivery is never affected. We had to ensure 100% delivery and never fail.