mail relay was: Re: Intent to revive "expires" header from draft-ietf-mailext-new-fields-15

Jeff Macdonald <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Organization e-Dialog
Message-ID <1216933070.17711.379.camel@jmac>

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> >
> > Not within the SMTP universe. The best-priority MX will do final delivery,
> > whatever that means
> 
> RFC 2821 defines "final delivery" and it has nothing to do with MXs. It
> simply means delivery into a message store or some other non-SMTP system.

Ok, you both lost me. Or Perhaps you are agreeing with me. How does a
sending MTA know that final delivery has happened?

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