Witse: > I don't have to do your home work. But consider the following. SMTP > was designed to implement a store-and-forward infrastructure, i.e. > nothing that remotely resembles 'upload' and 'fetch' functionality(*). > In the context of SMTP, those things have been implemented through > add-on programs that process email messages that are sent to a > specific email address.
I don't want to delegate my job of course. I am just interested in your opinions because obviously I don't know enough about SMTP until now. Therefore I want to thank you very much for the explanation. I didn't recognize that it would be bad practice to use an MTA in order to store such data over the long term. Thanks to Viktor and John as well for the clarification. Witse:>> Unfortunately the task is very specific about this. I have to implement >> the mentioned features by implementing additional FTP commands. > > In computer science, the most difficult problem is to solve the > right problem. Then there is giving meaningful names to things, > and handling errors. I think you're still at the first problem. Sorry for the mistake. Certainly the given task is about "additional SMTP commands", not FTP. I'll reconsider my idea and I'll definitely talk to my advisor. Many thanks for your help.
