RFC 1985:SMTP Service Extension ...
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service provider


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... companies want to only maintain transient connections to their service providers. In addition, there are some situations where the client sites depend on their mail arriving ...
... quickly, so forcing the queues on the server belonging to their service provider may be more desirable than waiting for the retry timeout to occur. ...



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