Re: Last Call: SMTP Service Extension for Content Negotiation to Proposed Standard

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker at brandenburg.com>]

At 05:20 PM 7/2/2002 -0700, ned.freed at mrochek.com wrote:
> I think the determining factor needs to be how clients will actually handle
> recipients with differing capabilities. If the least common denominator is
> going to be the dominant approach (and I suspect that it will be)

no surprise that I agree.

However...

>  If, on the other
> hand, messages tailored for a each recipient is going to be the norm, then
> VRFY is the correct approach.


If the sender is concerned about optimizing for each recipient, they can 
get that effect by reducing to a single RCPT-TO per DATA.

So it is not as pretty as the separate command, but it permits roughly the 
same mode of operation.

d/


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