On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 03:38:20AM -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
From a simple syntax standpoint, one option with an advertised
"prefer/ accept" parameter would do the job, and would be much
preferable architecturally to two options.
Yes.
connection-time-limited
What's a connection-time-limited environment?
And something batch-oriented also solves the "what to
do about those Received headers" problem
As well as the the extra round-trip times problem associated with SMTP.
A disadvantage of batch-oriented approaches is that mail rejection could
happen later.