Gee, someone admits that VERP is a good idea.
This draft needs a lot of work. It has gratuitous language about the extra
bandwidth that VERP requires, and hex encodes characters for no reason I can
understand. But I suppose the idea of allowing the VERP expansion on another
machine is OK.
Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4 2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47
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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 07:05:36 -0400
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Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-varshavchik-verp-smtpext-01.txt
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
Title : Variable Envelope Return Path SMTP Extension
Author(s) : S. Varshavchik
Filename : draft-varshavchik-verp-smtpext-01.txt
Pages : 11
Date : 27-Jul-99
This document describes an extension to the SMTP service [1], called
Variable Envelope Return Path (VERP). The VERP extension implements
a way of automatically identifying undeliverable mail recipients,
even when non-delivery reports originate from mail systems that do
not implement delivery status notifications as specified in [2] and
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