22 Feb
2010
22 Feb
'10
3:10 p.m.
On Feb 22, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
* Steven Bellovin:
Right; I was not seriously suggesting that the DNS was the right spot for it. I am seriously suggesting that a redirect mechanism -- perhaps the email equivalent of HTPP's 301/302 -- would be worth considering. Then, of course, there's problem of upgrading the $\aleph_0$ mail senders out there to comply...
There's already SMTP support for this, see RFC 5321, section 3.4. This has been carried over from RFC 821, which already contain the 251/551 response codes.
Thanks; I'd forgotten about those.
However, this is still a public database for which you cannot charge access, so it's not the solution we're looking for.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb