On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Dean Anderson wrote in reply to Doug Royer: > > > > No. On once case your get a "no such host" error and never send the > > > email in the first place and the other case gets a bounce. Not the same > > > thing. > > > > You don't seem to understand how mail works. In both cases you get a > > bounce. In neither case is a message sent. > > To correct you on matters emailish once again; a SMTP transaction can be > rejected _after_ the DATA (the complete message) has been completed. This is not a correction. I have never said it can't be rejected after the DATA transaction. > The fact that Entity Foo _currently_ rejects the SMTP transaction before > the data statement is not a guarantee that Entity Foo will _always_ reject > the SMTP transaction before the data statement. Well, this is the purpose of the SMTP mail rejector that Verisign operates. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act ensures that they will not ever divulge the contents of such mail. --Dean