Re: [Asrg] [ASRG] SMTP pull anyone?

"Chris Lewis" <clewis@nortel.com> Tue, 18 August 2009 17:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] [ASRG] SMTP pull anyone?
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Bill Cole wrote:

> I don't see how this reduces the effort required on the receiving side in
> comparison to currently common practices.

Precisely - in fact, it increases the work the receiver has to do, 
probably substantially.

Consider: the offer/callback approach is identical to SMTP up to the 
DATA keyword.

The "offer" would have to have more-or-less the same information as the 
pre-DATA SMTP information in normal SMTP.  A SMTP server can just as 
easily reject on that data pre-DATA, as to "choose not to do" the call 
back.  So, up to this point, the offer/callback approach doesn't do any 
less work than normal SMTP.

Then offer/callback actually has to call back and retrieve the message. 
  You also have to build in mechanisms to make sure that someone _else_ 
isn't doing the retrieval.

Then, if you do any DATA filtering, _both_ approaches have to do similar 
levels of work.

In other words, the offer/callback approach only causes you to expend 
more work actually implementing the callback _itself_, plus checking it 
for validity.