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Re: header-munging

Michael D'Errico <michael.derrico@software.com> Tue, 06 August 1996 22:41 UTC

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From: Michael D'Errico <michael.derrico@software.com>
To: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu>
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Subject: Re: header-munging
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> > Comments on draft-gellens-smtp-submit-00.txt are appreciated.
> 
> Instead of an SMTP extension, why not use a different TCP port?

I won't comment on that, but....

> [....] If the client can't produce a correctly formatted message, and
> the server won't accept incorrectly formatted messages, the situation
> is hopeless.

....this is exactly why I don't like the SUBMIT idea either.

Mike

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