On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote:
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Dean Anderson wrote in reply to Doug Royer:
No. On once case your get a "no such host" error and never send the
email in the first place and the other case gets a bounce. Not the same
thing.
You don't seem to understand how mail works. In both cases you get a
bounce. In neither case is a message sent.
To correct you on matters emailish once again; a SMTP transaction can be
rejected _after_ the DATA (the complete message) has been completed.
This is not a correction. I have never said it can't be rejected after the
DATA transaction.
The fact that Entity Foo _currently_ rejects the SMTP transaction before
the data statement is not a guarantee that Entity Foo will _always_ reject
the SMTP transaction before the data statement.
Well, this is the purpose of the SMTP mail rejector that Verisign
operates. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act ensures that they
will not ever divulge the contents of such mail.
--Dean