Re: Late comments on the msgtrk documents

Lyndon Nerenberg <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:26:01 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.msgtrk
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

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