At 12:55 PM 10/4/00 +0100, Graham Klyne wrote:
But I wonder if there isn't a real problem out there in parts of the world
where Internet bandwidth is considerably less plentiful and reliable than
most of us have come to expect. Mobile devices would be another case in point.
I think the interesting nugget in this draft is the idea that an SMTP
client may request retransmission of a partially transmitted message in a
new SMTP session, and if the server is prepared to continue a previous
transaction it provides information about the point from which
retransmission should continue.
Indeed. But I thought that RFC 1845, SMTP Service Extension for
Checkpoint/Restart, attacked that problem, though it is not used widely.
d/
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