Localized mail servers, global scope

Thu Jun 23 12:47:06 UTC 2005

> In other words, SMTP does not have the equivalent of an
> HTTP redirect which is what he wants here. Maybe SMTP
> really is broken? ;-)

hmm.

i seem to recall a similar redirect mechanism in SMTP some time ago.  not 
worth the effort; broken; or somesuch.

anyhow, once you've hit a server, the benefit of having it issue a redirect is 
much smaller than finding a way to avoid hitting it in the first place.

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