[122856] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX))
Mon Feb 22 14:17:04 2010
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:16:29 -0700
In-Reply-To: <3C19B274-DFDD-4D58-B236-716FD46AE271@cs.columbia.edu>
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smb@cs.columbia.edu:
> I am seriously suggesting that a redirect mechanism -- perhaps the email equivalent of HTPP's 301/302 -- would be worth considering.
We already have SMTP's 221 and 521 response codes for this. But because the
response text is free-form there's no way to reliably parse out the new address.
Fixing this is a bit tricky since the SMTP grammar defines <Reply-line> in
a way that makes it difficult to return the sort of structed response you
would need.
--lyndon
