[Asrg] Redirection at SMTP session

[Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz]

J.D. Falk wrote:
> On 03/12/2008 20:54, "Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz"
> <Jose-Marcio.Martins at ensmp.fr> wrote:
> 
>> Someone suggested forwarding at SMTP session, the same way as HTTP does.
>  [ . . . ]
>> This kind of thing isn't an open relay as the SMTP server shall maintain a
>> table/database of
>> redirections or, at least, some redirection rules.
>>
>> Was this kind of thing already discussed in the past ? Any thoughs ?
> 
> 551  User not local; please try <forward-path>

This is a permanent error - so an human is needed to interpret this.

I was thinking about something like (nor 4xx nor 5xx) :

303 FORWARD somepath at domain.com

> 
> It's been around since at least RFC 821, possibly longer.  I've never seen
> it in the wild, though.

Someone though about.


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