- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:11:14 -0500 (EST)
- To: jacek@systinet.com (Jacek Kopecky)
- Cc: xml-dist-app@w3.org
Hi Jacek, > Mark, > how do you accomplish acknowledgement in email? Stuart explained it well. Basically the response you get to your attempt to send email to a SMTP server is a hop-by-hop acknowledgement. A "success" response doesn't mean "the recipient received your message", it just means "this hop accepted your message for forwarding". > As far as I know > all the standardized ways are optional and usually unimplemented > or even ignored for security reasons. > If you mean hop-by-hop at the transport level (transport > intermediaries), s/transport/transfer 8-) > I think in case of email where you logically > never have a single hop transfer, this hop-by-hop ack is useless > to the sending SOAP node. I don't follow. > Oh, and I'm veeeeery interested in your non-tunneling use of > SMTP. 8-) Cool. > Oh, I forgot to add that I'd in fact like to see a one-way MEP, > but without the ACKs. I was considering mentioning this. It's really the degenerate MEP, because it's the pattern that the envelope uses without a binding. I agree that giving it a URI would be a good thing though. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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