SM wrote:
Hi Barry,
At 19:42 15-05-2011, Barry Leiba wrote:
I'd be very surprised to find that mention of "cron" in an RFC is
"unprecedented". Maybe I'll download the RFC set, have Google do a
word index on it, and see.
From RFC 3834:
"The auto-generated keyword:
- SHOULD be used on messages generated by automatic (often periodic)
processes (such as UNIX "cron jobs") which are not direct
responses to other messages"
But its not directly related to MAIL - its for scheduling automatic
jobs, and the above case "Often Periodic." That has nothing to do
with mail per see or the Mail AUTHOR as the MLM I-D sentence implies:
The author can be a human using an MUA (Mail
User Agent) or a common system utility such as "cron", etc.
This is not correct. The author is not a "common system utility" or
anything close to the scheduling tool unless you are saying the
RFC5322 author is also the OS logged in username which "cron" uses as
a default as an environment variable for any mail scripting events.
--
Hector Santos, CTO
http://www.santronics.com
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