Derek Diget wrote:
=>This also allows <domain> to use DNS to map them to somewhere else entirely.
-1 for having a "standard" address. Let sites decided. Some might want
them to go to abuse@, spam@, devnull@, spam-training(_at_)anti-spam(_dot_)vendor(_dot_)
Defeats the purpose of self-configuration, UNLESS the mailstore provider
can automatically provide it. See my posting under "We don't need no
stinking..." for a method to do it with TXT records.
I have deleted the message, but Thursday someone (you?) had a post with
regard to having the final MTA insert a header with the ARF reporting
address? I like that idea, but would replace MTA with MDA. An MTA
never really knows if it is the "last" MTA, where an MDA does.
We don't want to modify _anything_ in the mail stream if we can possibly
avoid it. If we do, sites can't do this without infrastructure changes
(which may never happen in some environments). Eg: if Microsoft elects
not to follow this spec, we've just disenfranchised Exchange environments.
Having it purely in the UA, and perhaps DNS for signalling, make it a
_lot_ easier to deploy.
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