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2008-07-24 14:20:41


On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:

Not within the SMTP universe. The best-priority MX will do final delivery,
whatever that means

RFC 2821 defines "final delivery" and it has nothing to do with MXs. It
simply means delivery into a message store or some other non-SMTP system.

Ok, you both lost me. Or Perhaps you are agreeing with me. How does a
sending MTA know that final delivery has happened?

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