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Re: [Asrg] 6. Proposals - AMTP (rev 01) - MPC

2003-10-02 00:58:30
At 10:23 PM 10/1/2003, Kee Hinckley wrote:
At 9:16 PM -0500 10/1/03, Bill Weinman wrote:
MPC is policy-neutral, and doesn't have a concept of "stronger" or "weaker", perhaps you mean "more restrictive"?
Why would backup servers have different MPC than the servers they back up?
Because they aren't always provided by the same company.

That doesn't mean they must have different preemptive MPC values. There are a number of ways to deal with this: use a least-restrictive common setting for the EHLO reply MPC value; bind to a particular IP addresses for your back up server. That's off the top of my head.

The EHLO reply preemptive MPC feature is not for everyone. I'm assuming most large ISPs will not use it. But it's an excellent solution for corporate mail servers where the corporation wants to control costs and set company-wide policies. But I expect many ISPs to have various settings available for their users to set on a recipient-specific basis. Like they do now with spam filters.

--Bill


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