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Re: List of ESMTP extensions

1998-04-10 12:08:31
See http://pobox.com/~djb/surveys/smtpextensions.txt. You missed ONEX,
VERB, and VRFY. There are also lots of X extensions that should be
documented.

RFC1869 seems to indicate that VRFY is required and thus doesn't need
to be advertised in an EHLO response.

CAPABILITIES|draft-ietf-fax-smtp-capabilities|Finding out server capabilities

I continue to be amazed at this proposal. Previous commentary:

: CAPS has surpassed ETRN in the ``Most absurd use of port 25'' contest.

That's an honor.  :-)

: Has anyone informed the authors that store-and-forward mail systems do
: not provide an online end-to-end link from the receiver to the sender?

Yep, I'm aware of that.

: Why would anyone even imagine putting this feature into SMTP? Is there
: something wrong with today's public-information retrieval protocols? I
: realize that ftpd and fingerd don't have enough hooks, but why not use
: httpd?

We will likely drop the proposal anyways in favor of 
draft-ietf-fax-mdn-features-01.txt, anyways, but if you're honestly
interested in a justification for draft-ietf-fax-smtp-capabilities I 
can give you several.

-Dan Wing

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