Hello!
Friday, January 05, 2001, 11:31:46 PM, Abigail Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OR>> Actually...... Why does no e-mail client have an option to deliver
OR>> sent mail directly to the addressed person's SMTP server. Am I
OR>> missing an obvious "NO" here, or have I just thought up a totally new
OR>> type of internet application (Maybe I should file a patent for it
OR>> right away <grin>)
AM> You don't know what your addressed person's SMTP server is - there is
AM> no way to know except by looking at RFC headers of mail they have sent
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AM> you,
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Partially correct. The mail routing is controlled by the MX records in
the DNS, by internal tables on some relays and so on.
AM> and then if they are using multiple ISP's like you, it would mean
AM> nothing.
Agreed. BTW the same mailbox owner could use different SMTP servers for
sending and receiving mail (the word "receiving" has nothing to do with
POP3 and/or IMAP4 - a client-side protocols - here; it stands for an
incoming mails going to this mailbox via SMTP).
AM> Not all servers with POP accounts have SMTP; web-based email such as
AM> yahoo or hotmail doesn't provide an SMTP that is associated with the
AM> domain name;
One remark: all of these online services are using SMTP internally.
AM> and the SMTP doesn't always match the domain name.
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Yours sincerely,
Andrey G. Sergeev (AKA Andris) http://www.andris.msk.ru/
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