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by Spivak 568 days ago
Out of order no, failing and having to manually re-send which makes it out of order is acceptable.
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I find that unacceptable and frustrating, personally. If a message fails to send, I want the client to hold back any later messages until the failed message is resolved somehow. It should auto-retry and (hopefully) eventually succeed, or I can manually delete it and "release" the following messages.