Author: Larry M. SmithLarry M. Smith Date: Jan 31, 2008 09:08
Martijn Lievaart wrote:
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>> Such discarding or "dead.letter" silliness goes against the published
>> SMTP specs.
>
> Yes and no.
>
> First and most important, the RFCs were written without massive spamruns
> in mind. So the argument that something is required by RFC, an argument I
> use in different situations myself quite often, is less applicable to
> todays Internet mailing systems.
>
Irrelevant. If you need to break SMTP in order to fix it; then you need
to either expand it via extensions, or scrap it and write another
transport for email. Either way you will need to write another set of
specs and hope the world also finds them useful.
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