Need for RSET?

RANDY@mpa15ab.mv.unisys.com Sat, 10 February 1996 00:48 UTC

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Subject: Need for RSET?

I was under the impression from 821 that there is no need to send a RSET
before a MAIL FROM when sending multiple messages; the MAIL FROM resets
state and clears buffers.

But RFC 1854 in 2.1 says "...That is, the RSET/MAIL FROM sequence
necessary to initiate a new message transaction...."

Is this correct?  It is the case that RSET is not technically required,
but there are deployed SMTP servers which insist on it and so everyone
sends it to be safe?

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