On 2/22/2010 10:38 PM, John Levine wrote:
In article <fddc4e5f9aeda526d68b236708b0dbc4@yyc.orthanc.ca> you write:
smb@cs.columbia.edu:
I am seriously suggesting that a redirect mechanism -- perhaps the email equivalent of HTPP's 301/302 -- would be worth considering.
We already have SMTP's 221 and 521 response codes for this. But because the response text is free-form there's no way to reliably parse out the new address.
Assuming you mean 251 and 551, the new address is in <brackets> making it straightforward to parse.
There's the minor detail that nobody has, as far as I can tell, ever implemented either, but the spec's there if you want it.
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