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Re: [Asrg] 3b. SMTP Session Verification - The Forwarding Problem

2004-02-10 06:41:35
I should mention briefly that my suggested "VIA" ESMTP extension can not be 
implemented exactly as I have presented it in earlier postings, due to syntax 
constraints. The production for "esmtp-value" does not allow the "space" or 
"=" characters, but the production for "mailbox" does. RFC 3461 faces the 
same problem and uses a simple encoding it calls "xtext".

The protocol is still theoretically implementable, but it would be somewhat 
uglier than my examples suggest if the esmtp-parameter mechanism were used. 
Such is life. It's intended to be one idea in a pool of suggestions rather 
than an immediate course of action in any case.

Regards,
TFBW


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