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Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your ...

2003-09-20 10:12:59


Dean Anderson wrote:

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Doug Royer wrote:

No, its not valid for a mail client to make direct connections.

Can you site any RFC that says that?

RFC 2821 (proposed standard) sheds some light on that: (This isn't a
replacement to STD0010, but reveals the disagreement on the roles of MTAs
and MUAs)

Your quote talks about conventions that may be used. It does not support your view that the MUA and MTA have to be separate pieces of code. And what your ISP does
for your does not have to be what other ISPs do for their customers.

2.3.3 Mail Agents and Message Stores

  Additional mail system terminology became common after RFC 821 was
  published and, where convenient, is used in this specification. ....


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