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Re: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis-04: VRFY and EXPN syntax

2007-07-14 14:46:46

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 10:05:20AM +0300, Kari Hurtta wrote:
4.1.1.6.  VERIFY (VRFY)
4.1.1.7.  EXPAND (EXPN)

Does anybody know about any MTA actively using these today?
Is there any secenario (besides address harvesting) within which these
are still useful in todays email communication?

IMHO most MTAs support the commands but respond something like:
    252 send some mail, i'll try my best

Why not simply drop them completely?
(And yes, I'd reread Ned's comments from March 2007 to this list).

        \Maex