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

2003-10-03 00:19:02
At 08:28 PM 10/2/2003, Brad Knowles wrote:
At 8:17 PM -0500 2003/10/02, Bill Weinman wrote:
 AMTP does not allow a sender that is "not MPC-enabled". The MPC argument
 in the MAIL command is REQUIRED (section 4.4.3).
So, people can't implement AMTP until they can guarantee that all of their backups do? That's going to cut down on the acceptance rate....

No, they can run AMTP and SMTP in parallel. Outgoing MTAs look for an SRV RR and use AMTP if available, otherwise fallback to SMTP.

--Bill


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