On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:59:49AM +0200, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
| Quoth Matthew Byng-Maddick on Wed, Jan 02, 2002:
| > But in this discussion, and I'll say it again because I think it's so
| > important, implementing SMTP commands and responses is not the same as
| > implementing SMTP.
|
| Err, what's the difference (if we are only talking about
| implementing SMTP as a client only)? If you can send commands
| and react properly to the responses (like mutt does when sendmail
| fails), I call it implementing SMTP.
Keywords here :
**and react properly to the responses**
The argument is that the MUAs currently fail in that regard, and
really should leave that to the MTA so it (and its developers) doesn't
have to worry about it.
-D
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