Name: draft-burger-smtp-deta-00
Title: SMTP Service Extension for Detached Operation
State: Active
Authors: Eric Burger
Group: Individual Submissions (none)
Date: 2004-08-27
The normal operation for the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is for
the submitting device to wait for all processing to complete and for the
server to return a positive acknowledgement to the client. However, some
devices have very intermittent connectivity, such as wireless mobile
terminals. For such devices, a means to have processing continue in the
case of a dropped connection is desirable. To this end, this SMTP service
extension enables a client to submit a message and reliably detach from the
session, indicating to the server to continue in the absence of a
connection to the client.
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