On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 08:47 , Felix Geerinckx wrote: [..] > a) parses the email address > b) look up the MX record for the destination through DNS > c) uses the SMTP protocol to exchange the message with the > destination mail server (using sockets). [..]
hence an advanced MUA bordering on an MTA and not quite exactly what I had been thinking of as a persistent smtp server - such as sendmail/Smail3/etc when running as a daemon... Oh that would seem to be a whole lot easier-ish to do, since one would not need to implement all of the RFC822/RFC2822 ( et al ) specifications per se.... ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
