[e2e] TCP in outer space

Tue Apr 10 16:52:02 PDT 2001

> From: Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com>

> ...
> Email is a much deeper kettle of fish; sure, you could carry the EHELO on 
> the SYN packet, but how much would that help with the succession of "From", 
> "To", "Data", and "end of data" messages that SMTP carries?

To repeat what I said before, what's wrong with what you'll find
by looking for "Command Pipelining" in the RFC index and in the
release notes for sendmail 8.12?

RFC 1854 is not exactly new. 
Given its STD060 number, it's also not unsanctified.

Vernon Schryver    vjs at rhyolite.com