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From: David Woolley
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 00:00

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In article <01bbd310$dc0e9020$846bdec2@jonhomer>,
Housing Dept <jhomer@bcchsg.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I am very interested in writing a SMTP server.  The protocol itself is very
>simple, but I can not work out, how when in TURNPIKE software you set the

There are gotchas.  Make sure you read RFC 1123 as well 821.
Also read the MIME and ESMTP RFCs, particularly with respect to 8 bit
handling, and remember there is a lot of techically broken software in
this area.

>email names up, how the information is then transfered to the
>Post.demon.co.uk mail server.

It isn't.  Why should it be.  Email is routed on host name only.
-- 
David Woolley, London, England          david@djwhome.demon.co.uk
(Sending any email to this site constitutes a licence to copy it to any
company which might reasonably be assumed to have transported it or
might reasonably be assumed to service any addresses quoted in it. 15Sep1996)

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