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Re: semantics of the signature

2004-10-08 21:23:24


On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Andrew Newton wrote:

Except it could be expressed by the recipient in a MASS-policy record 
or by the existence of a MASS-public-key.

You don't always know who the final recepient is going to be. All you know 
is the next-hop address as in RFC2821 RCPT TO (you can't really use any
of the RFC2822 fields for that as recepient address could be either
"To:", "CC:", "Bcc:" or none at all). But that maybe a forwarding address 
and behind the forwarder after next step the actual recepient may have MTA 
that does support signature decapsulation.

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net


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