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Re: [ietf-smtp] Endless debate on IP literals

2019-12-31 19:29:08
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, John C Klensin wrote:
Noting that the logic above is the same, anyone want to make a
case that people have had circa 27 years to adapt to EHLO (i.e.,
since RFC 1425 was published), that a number of important and
heavily-used features (such a the 8BITMIME extension) are
dependent on it as are other options that people in many part of
the world consider important (e.g., SMTPUTF8), and it is
therefore time to just deprecate HELO.

With a clearer split between SMTP and submission, that seems sensible. Submission can excuse all sorts of antique stuff that SMTP wouldn't.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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