Re: Late comments on the msgtrk documents
Lyndon Nerenberg <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:26:01 -0600
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.msgtrk |
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| Organization | ACI Worldwide - Advanced Technology Group |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> : (a) This paragraph talks about the "MAIL FROM command". In fact, all > : other RFCs about SMTP call it the "MAIL command". This change is > : needed throughout the document. > > A quick scan shows that RFC numbers 1426, 1651, 1652, 1653, 1830, 1845, > 1854, 1869, 1870, 1894, 2197, 2421, 2442, 2476, 2554, 2852, 2920, and > 3030 all refer to the "MAIL FROM command". However, the series that > this is most closely modeled on (DSNs, RFC 1891-4) do not use that > terminology. For this reason, and because we refer to the RCPT command > (not the RCPT TO command), I've gone ahead and made the suggested > change, but it's hardly universal. Anyone else want to throw anything > in on this? RFC2821 uses "MAIL command." Since that's the definitive reference we should be consistent with it. --lyndon /* Pre-C-Preprocessor to translate ANSI trigraph idiocy in BUF before main CCCP processing. Name `pcp' is also in honor of the drugs the trigraph designers must have been on. */