> Ah. Using the first round of RCPT TOs as capabilities checks only and sending > the RSET unconditionally is really quite cute. "cute" is rather opposite of the four-letter word I would have chosen. > It still has the added > complexity of having multiple commands per recipient, but now it is the same > command repeated, which eliminates a bunch of the edge conditions and makes the > silly states very silly indeed. well, I'll admit I'm curious - how does using the same command in two different ways eliminate a bunch of edge conditions? (if we had only one command in SMTP and used it over and over would that eliminate even more edge conditions?) really, I don't have a guess as to what you're talking about here, and I am curious. Keith