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Re: The roaming user problem is insoluble (paging Meng Wong)

2004-05-11 15:59:32

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Matthew Elvey wrote:

Are you twisting my words around because you want to annoy me?

No, I'm agreeing with you.

  Instead of blaming Freeserve, despite these two examples of
boneheadedness, you're blaming MAPS *AND* using this example of what to
not break.  That truly makes no sense.

My point was that if you randomly try to send email despite SMTP AUTH
failing (because there's a "transparent" SMTP proxy in the way) you can
expect your email to disappear without a trace because both the message
and the bounce will be rejected. I used Freeserve as an example of similar
problems occuring in the real world.

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