Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

Mon Feb 22 19:11:16 UTC 2010

On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:
>
> 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...

See the 251 and 551 response codes first specified in RFC 788 section 3.2
and currently specified in RFC 5321 section 3.4. No-one implements them.

Tony.
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