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- From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
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- Organization: York University
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:24:24 GMT
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- avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
- |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).
-
- SAML and SOML are underused on the internet, yet the equivalent
- on BITnet is heavily used....
- Don't take them out of the spec: you may want them later,and a standard
- way of doing them is desirable.
-
- VRFY is utterly necessary to postmasters, and is therefor mandated by the
- Hosts Requirements RFC: finger is shut down on all too many sites, and so
- vrfy/expn are required to verify adressees when mail goes astray.
-
- And HELO is the hook for stronger authentication: even now it and thge
- recieved lines allow me to spot (poorly-)forged mail at a glance.
-
- (small flame) If you've implemented smtp, you should really know all that...
-
- --dave
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- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@CCS.YorkU.CA | lethe!dave
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