IPP Mail Archive: IPP> NOT - mailto comment: what if Printe

IPP> NOT - mailto comment: what if Printer isn't yet configured to SM TP server?

From: Hastings, Tom N (hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com)
Date: Tue Aug 15 2000 - 21:33:40 EDT

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    The following snippet from Paul Moore's and Michael Sweet's exchange seems a
    good comment on the mailto spec and needs to be mentioned in that spec:

    Tom

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Michael Sweet [mailto:mike@easysw.com]
    Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 08:49
    To: pmoore@peerless.com
    Cc: ipp@pwg.org
    Subject: Re: IPP> notification methods

    pmoore@peerless.com wrote:

    ...

    > ...
    > 4. even if we mandate mailto, not all printers will support it. In
    > order for it to work the printer must have its SMTP gateway
    > configured by somebody. In some cases this will not have been done
    > so the mailto method wont work - interesting question about how a
    > printer should deal with this case. Presumably it must not say it
    > can do mailto - or perhaps it will accept the requests and throw
    > them away. Clients will always have to be smart.

    This is an interesting point - it would be easy to return an error
    from a create-subscription operation, but what would we return from
    a print-job or create-job?

    ...

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