[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Sat Mar 23 23:02:46 CST 2002


[ On Saturday, March 23, 2002 at 23:07:26 (-0500), Brian Hechinger wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [geeks] thoughts on SMTP
>
> nah, it would work like mod_gzip, you could configure your mail server to not
> do compression or the mail server just doesn't know how to do compression and
> no compression is done.  negotiate, negotiate, negotiate!

There have been unsuccessful attempts to discuss using an ESMTP option
to allow negotiation of compressed transport, but they've never caught
on.  As far as I can tell such an idea never even made it into an IETF
draft, never mind RFC.

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