Re: vacation

[Steve Hole <steve@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 22 May 1997 16:50:39 -0700 (PDT)  Ned Freed 
<Ned.Freed@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Should the base spec provide a way to do vacation-style forwarding?
> > What should this mechanism be?
> 
> It can be there but it has to be optional, since vacation forwarding depends on
> a database of addresses-already-sent-to, which implies significant per-user
> storage, storage some implementations may not want to allow for. Management of
> this database may be a bit more than we need in the base document, too...

I agree with Ned here.   It is an extension that we should probably work 
on right away though because it is such a highly sought after function.   
Doing that would be a nice way to test out how well the extension 
mechanisms specified in the base document work.

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