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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 18:19:53 -0700
To: Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au>
From: Randall Gellens <randy@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: RSET inconsistency
Cc: Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk>, drums@cs.utk.edu

At 7:45 AM -0700 4/27/98, Robert Elz wrote:

>That still leaves the question of what is a valid RSET command open - should
>a server that receives "RSET THE WORLD" reply "250" (as all I tested did),
>or 501 (or 504) ?

Eudora WorldMail replies with 500:

>rset the world
>500 rset command unrecognized

Seems a 500 response should be fine in such a case.  As you said, no
sane client sends such a thing.