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Re: RSET scope issue

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> Tue, 15 August 2000 03:16 UTC

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To: Detailed Revision/Update of Message Standards <drums@cs.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: RSET scope issue
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In-Reply-To: "Woodhouse, Gregory J."'s message of "Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:06:08 -0500"
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
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Woodhouse, Gregory J <gregory.woodhouse@med.va.gov> writes:

> It basically makes sense to me. It seems that what is happening here is an
> unstated assumption that transactions will never be nested, so an RSET
> always goes back to the top level (immediately after EHLO). This ought to
> either be made explicit or some language like "the current transaction must
> be reset to its initial state" should be used instead. I'm not sure if just
> deleting the phrase is the right approach because it seems to rely on
> knowledge of an unstated assumption.

Doesn't this part of the current text already cover that?

  This command specifies that the current mail transaction will be
  aborted.  Any stored sender, recipients, and mail data MUST be
  discarded, and all buffers and state tables cleared.

I had the same question at first, but on re-reading that seems to sum up
everything that RSET should do.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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