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RE: Why SUBMITTER as parameter and not as seperate command in ESMTP?

2004-06-05 11:19:12
From: Spf Pobox Com
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 12:54 PM


Why do you want to add a paramater SUBMITTER to the MAIL FROM command
instead of adding a new command SUBMITTER to the ESMTP protocol? So we
can check if a server understands SUBMITTER at the EHLO command.

This is only because some MTAs that are not patched have problems with
SUBMITTER in the MAIL FROM command.

This is another good reason to consider resurrecting the deprecated reverse
source route format already in the RFC's and handled benignly by existing
MTA's.

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Seth Goodman