Re: smtp questions

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, DENNIS BYRNE wrote:

> Perhaps you can answer another question, how far along has SMTP come
> compared to HTTP? Back with older versions of HTTP, each transaction
> meant building a destroying a socket. Then, you could do persistant
> connections - req1, res1, req2, res2, req3, res3 ... Now there is
> pipelining - req1, req2, req3, res1, res2, res3 ...
>
> Can SMTP send and/or recieve multiple emails in this fashion?

Yes, but that may be dependent on the vendor's implementation. I know that
sendmail supports that.

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Received on Fri Mar 5 08:10:11 2004