SMTP Service Extension for Reliable Delivery
draft-burger-smtp-rdlv-01
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Authors | Alexey Melnikov , Eric Burger | ||
Last updated | 2005-07-05 | ||
RFC stream | (None) | ||
Intended RFC status | (None) | ||
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Stream | Stream state | (No stream defined) | |
Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
RFC Editor Note | (None) | ||
IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
There is an issue with SMTP that RFC 1047 raised in 1988. The time between a SMTP client submitting a mail object and the SMTP server responding to the request can be arbitrarily long. SMTP addresses this issue by a hack, hoping that the SMTP server responds fast enough and the SMTP client waits long enough to find out if the submission was successful.
Authors
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