Re: DRUMS

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Author: Jon Morby
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To: Philip Hazel
CC: Dom Mitchell, exim-users
Subject: Re: DRUMS
> On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Dom Mitchell wrote:
>
> > Has anybody looked at how exim fares under the new drafts for smtp,
> > message formats, et al proposed by the DRUMS group[1]? Just something I
> > have been informed about and wondered if anyone else had looked at it.
>
> How come I get two messages about this within 5 minutes of each other?
> Who needs Exim when there's such telepathy about?


Well beats the mail transfer by avian carriers ... Hmmm, perhaps it's time
for an updated RFC methinks :)

> I was on the DRUMS list - though I haven't seen any traffic for ages and
> am beginning to wonder if I fell off it - and was looking at the drafts.
> They are supposed to be consolidating existing practice and there's
> nothing really startling in the ones I saw. I don't think there's very
> much that one might consider changing in Exim, but others may have
> different opinions...


I'm in the process of going through the drafts and looking for specifics,
the only real stuff that is likely to be essential within the operation
we're currently looking at using Exim for would be things like Delivery
Service Notification, etc.

> Since this is going to the list and is on the topic of new stuff, I
> might as well let you all know that I am currently working on IPv6
> support for Exim. Please start a new thread if you want to discuss it,
> though!


I sometimes wonder if IPv6 will ever actually happen, but that might be a
bit off topic for this thread / group :)
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