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From: ylee@csl.dl.nec.com (Ying-Da Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: IBM Do It Again
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.145344.7135@csl.dl.nec.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 14:53:44 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.214922.23442@pa.dec.com>
Organization: NEC America, C & C Software Development Lab
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In article <1991Apr10.214922.23442@pa.dec.com> vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
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>S3 is supposed to be idempotent,
>so most people just call it from the top of S0 "just to be safe".

Is it really stated in any "formal" document that S3 is to be
idempotent?  This is news to me and there are a great number of
sendmail.cf's out there that have non-idempotent S3.  None of
Sun's sendmail.cf's I have seen, for example, have idempotent S3.

	Ying-Da Lee
	NEC America
	C&C Software Development Lab
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