[Asrg] Redirection at SMTP session

Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz Jose-Marcio.Martins at ensmp.fr
Wed Dec 3 13:34:44 PST 2008


Hello Matthias,

Matthias Leisi wrote:
> Chris Lewis schrieb:

> 
> If I understand Jose-Marcio corretly, that's not where "303 FORWARD
> somepath at domain.com" would come into the picture.
> 
> I guess the basic idea is for cases where it is feasible and practical
> for the (intermediate) destination server to tell the sending server to
> deliver the message to somewhere else.

You got the idea !!!!!!!

And I agree with all your comments below !

> 
> Such a step would eliminate a number of potential forwarding issues (eg
> that the forwarding target server may/should identify the forwarding
> server as a legitimate forwarder and not as a spam source per se).
> 
> However I'm not sure that there would be sufficiently broad usage that
> it would gain sufficient attraction and adoption, but it could be an
> interesting SMTP extension, especially for sites with a large forwarding
> user base (like Google etc).
> 
> -- Matthias

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