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From: rob@philabs.Philips.Com (Rob Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Interactive SMTP over phone lines
Message-ID: <1075@briar.Philips.Com>
Date: Thu, 7-May-87 10:04:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  7 10:04:12 1987
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Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY
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Keywords: smtp sendmail interactive modem line noise
Summary: line noise

In article <351@hqda-ai.UUCP> merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes) writes:
>     We ought to be able to do this with the current BSD sendmail.
>I see a mail transport agent.  Sendmail should be told to talk
>smtp to the TA.  The TA dials, then just acts as a pass-through.
>Of course, we don't get file transfer this way, but it still seems
>like a reasonable approach.

>     Anyone want to comment?


The problem is that smtp does not deal with error detection and 
correction with regard to line noise.  


rob
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