On Sunday 29 February 2004 06:48, Hector Santos wrote:
If anything, my design experience tells me Microsoft (and YAHOO) will force
or "encourage" a "new dominate behavior" for mail transport which will need
a modified SMTP. Namely, since CID and YDK both requires the transfer of
the message, there will probably be a big need to split the DATA command
into two commands:
You could do this today as an ESMTP extension, probably best to call it 'HEAD'
(SMTP tradition is for 4-letter commands) and it is not necessary to create a
separate BODY command. You can simply say that when a HEAD command is sent
prior to DATA, the DATA section becomes headerless.
Of course getting it adopted is another matter...