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Re: Advanced tricks I use to get rid of spam using MX 4xx

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Subject: Re: Advanced tricks I use to get rid of spam using MX 4xx
From: Larry Weldon <lweldon@welcoin.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:24:38 -0500
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On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 16:38 -0500, Uncle George wrote:
> >     To provide reliable mail transmission, the SMTP client MUST be able
> >     to try (and retry) each of the relevant addresses in this list in
> >     order, until a delivery attempt succeeds.  
> 

> I think you are missing the *MUST* in the first sentence. There is no 
> try of any other MX if a connection is made, but delivery fails for any 
> reason.
> 

You correctly point out that it says "MUST be _able_ to" - that is, it
does NOT say "MUST try and retry".

Larry



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