To make this a little more QMTP compatible, and to agree with some of Peter
Norton's comments from late 1998, the sending MTA could also immediately
'transfer' the request to the QMTP by opening a new connection on the QMTP
port when it 'saw' the QMTP response from the foreign SMTP MTA. It would
I was wondering if it wouldn't be smart to use an extension to EHLO as a
way to detect QMTP availability on an MX. I decided to check and 'QMTP'
& 'EHLO' only appear together 4 times. Chuck Foster seems to be the
first to have asked whether it wouldn't be smart to add a "250 QMTP"
(later correct
