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

Dave Crocker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.fax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 05:20 PM 7/2/2002 -0700, [email protected] 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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