From: Magnus Bäck (magnusdsek.lth.se)
Date: Sun Jul 02 2006 - 15:25:38 CDT

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On Sunday, July 02, 2006 at 22:13 CEST,
     Chris McKeever <techjedigmail.com> wrote:

> Just for clarification on a SMTP session, right during the RCPT TO:
> communication, if the address is invalid, it should falg it as such
> right then...
>
> so, this example against EBAY would not be correct:
>
> 250 sjciport02.sjc.ebay.com
> MAIL FROM: cgmckeevergoogle.com
> 250 sender <cgmckeevergoogle.com> ok
> RCPT TO: cgmckeeverebay.com
> 250 recipient <cgmckeeverebay.com> ok

Assuming that cgmckeeverebay.com isn't an existing user then, yes, it
would be wrong of eBay to accept the recipient like this.

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Magnus Bäck
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