From: Andrzej Adam Filip (anfixl.wp.pl)
Date: Sat Jul 28 2007 - 06:16:50 CDT

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Adam Jacob Muller wrote:
>
> On Jul 27, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Victor Duchovni wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 01:03:33PM +0200, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
>>
>>> (E)SMTP is loosing ground so do not *joke* about "worldwide upgrade".
>>> I am a postmaster, for me it is not funny.
>>
>> This is hype. Legitimate mail volumes (even after spam is filtered out)
>> continue to grow. The fact that in some cases users have additional
>> ways to communicate is not contrary to pundit opinion a sure sign of
>> the decline of email.
>>
>> What teens do with their cell phones when they are roaming malls is not
>> indicative of what they will do ten years later when some of them have
>> a job that involves communicating with remote peers.
>>
>> -- Viktor.
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>
>
> Is it even something desirable to have everyone talking LMTP? I can't
> find the link at the moment but I had read a site recently that had some
> arguments that LMTP was designed as a local mail transport and wasn't
> designed for usage over the greater internet (for reasons that escape me
> now).
>
> Assuming that LMTP IS something that would be nice to move to the
> greater internet, why not put LMTP in our SMTP banners like ESMTP?

It would not make real difference without being *required* from sending
party.

> Just a random thought, but can you 4xx fail some recipients on a mail?
> What if I consistently 4xx the 2nd 3rd etc recipients, then accepted or
> rejected the mail based on the contents, then later the remote MTA would
> retry with only the other recipients for that mail, keep doing that
> until I have accepted and rejected all recipients individually. There
> are 1000 things wrong with this idea, so just ignore it but is it
> technically possible?

It sacrifices delivery speed.

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