SMTP Service Extension for Reliable Delivery
draft-burger-smtp-rdlv-01
| Document | Type | Expired Internet-Draft (individual) | |
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| Authors | Alexey Melnikov , Eric Burger | ||
| Last updated | 2005-07-05 (Latest revision 2004-09-02) | ||
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Abstract
There is an issue with SMTP that RFC 1047 raised in 1988. The time between a SMTP client submitting a mail object and the SMTP server responding to the request can be arbitrarily long. SMTP addresses this issue by a hack, hoping that the SMTP server responds fast enough and the SMTP client waits long enough to find out if the submission was successful.
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