In article <fddc4e5f9aeda526d68b236708b0d...@yyc.orthanc.ca> you write: >s...@cs.columbia.edu: >> I am seriously suggesting that a redirect mechanism -- perhaps the >email equivalent of HTPP's 301/302 -- would be worth considering. > >We already have SMTP's 221 and 521 response codes for this. But because the >response text is free-form there's no way to reliably parse out the new >address.
Assuming you mean 251 and 551, the new address is in <brackets> making it straightforward to parse. There's the minor detail that nobody has, as far as I can tell, ever implemented either, but the spec's there if you want it. R's, John
