[81662] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Localized mail servers, global scope
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com)
Thu Jun 23 04:47:49 2005
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0506221754290.15056@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:45:30 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> You don't need a central MX if each site MTA knows which users are at
> which sites. Incoming email may have to take an extra hop if it comes in
> to the wrong site, but that's a consequence of the specification that no
> implementation can fix.
In other words, SMTP does not have the equivalent of an
HTTP redirect which is what he wants here. Maybe SMTP
really is broken? ;-)
--Michael Dillon
