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Re: Qmail is clearly out of compliance with RFC282.

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Subject: Re: Qmail is clearly out of compliance with RFC282.
From: Lars Hansson <lars@unet.net.ph>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:42:32 +0800
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On Tuesday 28 November 2006 06:42, Marc Perkel 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.
>
>
> Seems clear to me. Unless you want to argue what MUST means.

It only says it has to be able to do it, it doesnt say it *has* to do it.

> Clearly it is saying that in any case that at least 2 mx records must
> best tested. For some reason you are ignoring the plain language of the
> RFC. It could have been written more precisely but you really have to
> stretch to not get what it is clearly saying.

Like how it is precise about not issuing 4xx replies on connection?

> Qmail is out of compliance with RFC282.

What's out of compliance is your 4xx reply on connection and there's nothing 
unclear about that.

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Lars Hansson

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