Le 09/02/2006 20:13:19+0000, Brian Candler a ?crit > > For example, say an incoming message arrives at the mail store with the > following envelope: > > MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > DATA > (message body) > . > > It may be that the mail store is able to deliver the message to user1, has a > temporary error when delivering to user2 which needs to be retried later, > and has a permanent error when delivering to user3. > > With SMTP, the mail store can only give a single response after the message > body, so it is forced to accept the mail with a 2XX response code, keep the > message in a local spool queue so that it can retry later for user2, and > generate an outbound bounce message for the failed delivery for user3. > > With LTMP, the mail store can generate separate accept/reject response codes > for each recipient. As a result, the sending MTA retains responsibility for > retrying and bouncing; the mail store doesn't need any queue runner daemon, > not does it send any bounces. This gives you one less mail queue to monitor
Lots of thanks for your explainations. > and manage, and in the case of Cyrus, keeps the code base simple. Stupid question : Why ?in the case of Cyrus? ? What's difference is this question between Cyrus and Courier-Imap ? Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 i?me ?tage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time: Fri Feb 10 00:54:53 CET 2006 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
