Re: Localized mail servers, global scope

In other words, SMTP does not have the equivalent of an HTTP redirect which is what he wants here. Maybe SMTP really is broken? ;-)

hmm. i seem to recall a similar redirect mechanism in SMTP some time ago. not worth the effort; broken; or somesuch. anyhow, once you've hit a server, the benefit of having it issue a redirect is much smaller than finding a way to avoid hitting it in the first place. d/