Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-sieve-notify-mailto-08.txt

Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> Barry Leiba wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for consensus on one of these:
> >
> > 1. Using Auto-Submitted to avoid loops -- and, therefore, the risk of 
> > loops if we send notifications for auto-submitted messages -- is 
> > sufficiently important that the current "MUST NOT" text should stay.
> > 2. The use cases for notifications on auto-submitted messages are 
> > sufficiently important that the text should be changed.  [Please 
> > suggest new text, in this case.]
> > 3. "SHOULD NOT" is an acceptable compromise.  The current "MUST NOT" 
> > should be changed to "SHOULD NOT", with some added text to explain the 
> > danger very clearly.  [In this case, you can suggest text, or I'll 
> > craft it.]
> Now that you mention this I prefer SHOULD NOT.
So I take it that means:

   Implementations SHOULD NOT trigger notifications for messages
   containing "Auto-Submitted:" header fields with any value other than
   "No".

Then I assume we want to add a clause after that saying something like 
"because notifications triggered by such messages can result in mail loops."
/psa

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