At 2:43 PM -0500 2003/04/03, Dean Anderson wrote:

                         SMTP is a client-server protocol, not a
 server-server protocol.  Your proposal is just a way to use DNS to make
 SMTP server-server.

This is a demonstrably false statement. The updated RFCs for Internet e-mail explicitly state that SMTP is a server-to-server protocol. If you want client-to-server, this would be the Mail Server Protocol (MSP). Right now, MSP looks a hell of a lot like SMTP, but they will diverge in the future.


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