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Re: Localized mail servers, global scope
- From: Tony Finch
- Date: Thu Jun 23 08:57:58 2005
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Dave Crocker wrote:
>
> i seem to recall a similar redirect mechanism in SMTP some time ago. not
> worth the effort; broken; or somesuch.
The 251 and 551 forwarding address responses. Many mail servers don't know
a user's forwarding address at SMTP time; most mail servers treat any 5xx
response to RCPT TO the same way; mail servers don't want to maintain a
local database of forwarding addresses culled from 251 responses...
Tony.
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