Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

["Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)" <lyndon () orthanc ca>]

smb () 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.

Fixing this is a bit tricky since the SMTP grammar defines <Reply-line> in
a way that makes it difficult to return the sort of structed response you
would need.

--lyndon