Re: [Asrg] Re: draft-hall-inline-dsn-01

[Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at>]

"Eric A. Hall" <ehall at ehsco.com> wrote:
>On 1/29/2007 4:49 AM, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>
>> It also may reduce the risk of resending a message which was already
>> accepted because the connection broke down, but I'm not sure that really
>> works:
>> If you send a message to 100 recipients, and the connection breaks after
>> 43 replies, how many will get the message?
>
>Hopefully none of them, since the server was not able to fully accept the
>message for delivery.
>It might be worth putting a synchronization marker after the full list of
>recipients has been acknowledged by the client in order to ensure that
>both end points are at the same state when final code is issued.

Ugh, no, that's horrible for performance. The right solution is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fanf-smtp-rfc1845bis-00.txt

Tony.
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