At 04:16 PM 7/3/2002 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
This "one address per copy" approach insures that there will ALMOST
ALWAYS be wasted processing and message uploading in any situation
where knowing the capabilities prior to message transmission would
have allowed the piggybacking of additional addresses onto a copy of
the message
If the sender already know the capabilities of the recipient, then the
sender does not need to use ESMTP/CONNEG. ESMTP/CONNEG is designed for use
when the sender does NOT have that information.
There are a number of ways the sender might obtain capabilities before
starting this SMTP session.
One example is
<http://www.imc.org/draft-ietf-fax-content-negotiation>. Another is, no
doubt, via some LDAP-based directory.
You need to decide what the
trade-offs are
By "you" I assume you mean the aggregation of the implementer and the
sending system's administrator. There is no need for this specification to
dictate that choice.
d/
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