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Re: retry question

2008-08-06 07:44:21

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Ned Freed wrote:

It depends on whether or not any recipients were accepted. If any were 
accepted
the message data needs to be sent and if accepted only the ones that gave a 
4yz
error should be retried. If all recipients got a 4yz you should abort and 
retry
the whole thing later.

Where is the text that explains this to an implementer without enough
common sense or experience with existing SMTPs?

AFAIK there isn't any. Why don't you write some?

                                Ned