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Re: OT? /dev/null 5.1.1 email

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Fri Jul 8 15:37:33 2005

Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:08:48 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1120614716.26011.5.camel@localhost>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
> Presumably sending smtp servers do have spools, however given the range
> of things that send email these days... who really knows?

Things that send email without having a spool cannot route email
according to RFC 974, so they are not a problem for MXs.

Tony.
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