ietf-smtp
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Submit Server Discovery extension

1999-03-12 18:24:07
At 10:29 PM -0800 3/11/99, Dan Wing wrote:

I don't see the value here.  Why would a client be configured with the
address of an SMTP server that is something _other_ than its submit
server?

It's a migration issue. In any organization (company, ISP, etc.) there are likely to be a lot of existing clients configured to submit messages using port 25 on some server. If the intent is to migrate all users to submit via the submission port, having a response from the old SMTP server may help a lot.

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>