> > > > If the sender gets a tempfail for anything other than RCPT TO, I would > > not expect the sender to split the resend, in fact, it's highly > > unlikely. > > Right.
There were a variety of ESMTP proposals kicked around ASRG concerned with putting the data before the recipient list; AFAIK nobody ever implemented any of them. (Mine imagined the data as a template, and an extended RCPT TO that included key/value pairs for filling it, solving the non-problem (:)) of conserving bandwidth for mass e-mail marketers) -- `fortune`
