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- From: davidf@golem.waterloo.on.ca (David J. Fiander)
- Subject: Useless bits of SMTP (was Re: 8-bit news)
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:56:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.215606.26755@golem.waterloo.on.ca>
- References: <1glu1sINNoth@rodan.UU.NET> <CKD.92Dec15215407@loiosh.eff.org> <1gma3uINN2e6@rodan.UU.NET>
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- According to avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov):
- >>SMTP is bloated? I'll trade you SOML, SEND, SAML, and TURN for an
- >>eight-bit negotiation mechanism. We'll still slim it by a command or two.
- >
- >It already has features nobody uses (VRFY, EXPN, SOML, SAML, TURN)
- >and simply useless (HELO). Most implementations simply don't know
- >what to do with all that (i know because i had a pleasure of
- >implementing SMTP stuff).
-
- You've obviously never had to debug a mail connection
- remotely. I use VRFY and EXPN regularly. I'm willing to give
- up SOML, SEND, and SAML, but I think that TURN could become more
- useful, especially now that the Internet is so wide that it can
- take a minute or two to form the initial connection.
-