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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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