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Idea / RFE Review. Apologies for the length of time this idea has been in the status of Uncommitted Candidate / Future Consideration. Although we have not yet managed to prioritise this feature, and despite the solitary vote it has received, we absolutely still see value in this request. Given the EmailInput node externals for retry we have strong precedent in this area of functionality and ideally we'd like to make the input and output variants of these transport nodes equivalent to one another. We will continue to monitor this idea for popularity. Status is maintained as Future Consideration.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Integration
Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - WebSphere
Product family - Connectivity and Integration
Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB
Thanks for raising this requirement. It's actually quite a tricky problem to solve, because during an outage the problem would be transferred upstream to the broker, as all the processing threads in the broker would now be hanging waiting for the SMTP server to become available again, which will prevent additional processing from the input sources.
For certain classes of error I can certainly see that a retry mechanism would be beneficial however, and would complement the existing retry techniques that WMB/IIB has - check out the record and replay facilities if you haven't already.