Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA From: MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA (Mark Crispin) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: smtp, errors and delivery Message-ID: <362@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 04:09:03 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.362 Posted: Mon Mar 5 04:09:03 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 02:26:40 EST References: <04Mar84.214333.EN0C@CMU-CS-A> Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 15 To: Rudy.Nedved@CMU-CS-A.ARPA Cc: Header-People@MIT-MC.ARPA In-Reply-To: Message from "Rudy.Nedved@CMU-CS-A" of Sun 4 Mar 84 21:43:00-PST Postal-Address: 725 Mariposa Ave. #103; Mountain View, CA 94041 Phone: (415) 497-1407 (Stanford); (415) 968-1052 (residence) Rudy - The TOPS-20 SMTP sender (part of MMailr) is one of those SMTP senders who will send a MAIL FROM: with a null argument if the SMTP server rejects the command. This is to maximize what chance the message has of getting through. I think that this is completely within reasonable fault-tolerance procedures. I will resist any pressure to change it, until and unless CMU is willing to undertake the responsibility of reliably delivering any and all mail originating from any and all TOPS-20 systems on the Internet. -- Mark -- -------