On 12 Feb 1998 16:27:38 -0500 Tim Showalter
<tjs+(_at_)andrew(_dot_)cmu(_dot_)edu> wrote:
If the time of final delivery for a system is such that the default mailbox
may be on a server different from the one where the message is being
processed, the server is going to have to have the ability to deposit mail
into an arbitrary mailbox, even if the server's down, even if the mailbox
is on another server, then the system is going to have to be able to deal
with it.
From the start I've considered the "mailbox" to be an opaque label. If
a server decides to interpret mailbox names as IMAP URLs (say), SIEVE
shouldn't care. While I agree that there are silly ways to abuse such a
facility, as long as it's allowed you can't count on a folder being
local (short of mandating that in the spec).
--lyndon