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[paddy]

Here I go, replying to myself again (*tsk* *tsk* ;)

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:07:26PM +0000, paddy wrote:
> I would imagine that you might be able construct a system that keeps the
> sender waiting as long as possible in the hope of passing the mail
> along to someone else without having to write it to disk, and _only then_
> confirms receipt to the sender, but I don't know about the following
> sequence:
>
>   Sender: mail ... rcpt ... data ... blah,blah,blah ...
>           . (the dot on its own!)
>   Server: (goes and delivers to next recipient gets a 2xx)
>   Sender: hangs up before Server can send 2xx
>   Server: now what ?

Of course! Its an smtp proxy!  I just don't know the details.

Regards,
Paddy
--
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall

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