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3028bis, section 4.2, paragraph 2

2007-02-06 17:38:25


There's been some lingering dislike of the description of the redirect action, particularly how it describes the change of envelope recipient. 3028bis-10 removed this sentence
        The "redirect" modifies the envelope recipient.

as it was observed that it implied that the result of the 'envelope' test would be affected. With that gone, only the second paragraph actually described how the address in the action was to become an envelope recipient, but it's description is fairly indirect. So, I propose replacing most of that paragraph, so that instead of reading thusly:

   The redirect command performs an MTA-style "forward"--that is, what
   you get from a .forward file using sendmail under UNIX.  The address
   on the [SMTP] envelope is replaced with the one on the redirect
   command and the message is sent back out.  (This is not an MUA-style
   forward, which creates a new message with a different sender and
   message ID, wrapping the old message in a new one.)

it would instead say:

   The message is send back out with the address from the redirect
   command as an envelope recipient.  Implementations MAY combine
   separate redirects for a given message into a single submission with
   multiple envelope recipients.  (This is not an MUA-style forward,
   which creates a new message with a different sender and message ID,
   wrapping the old message in a new one.)

And yes, the elimination of the mention of .forward files in intentional, as that irked some.


Are there any objections to the above change?


Philip Guenther

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