On Tue, 14 April 1998 19:40:03 +0200, Georg v.Zezschwitz wrote:
> I agree as well that it should also be supported on the client
> side. However, this is much more code and requires a complete
> rearrangement of the transports/smtp.c-code.
Indeed. Whatever Dan is saying, I think this would be really useful
and just a little bit faster for those mails with more than one rcpt
for the same MX. With some servers it's a pain if you're waiting for
each single "rcpt to" line being ack'ed by the remote host.
> P.S. I suppose supporting "ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES" would be the
> easiest and most useful next ESMTP-feature to implement.
I took the time (which?) and had a look at all those RfCs and I think
that many of those new thingies Georg mentioned would be rather useful.
> There were thoughts to implement more natural error messages
> in Exim. But a better way would be to implement the standart
> RFC and build up a parser for enhanced statuscodes for the
> end user. The end user systems knows best which language is
> understood by the client.
This I also like ,-) ... It's a more general approach being extensible
for the local administrator. One could make error files which are
included.
Alexander
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