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RE: MARID charter and using 2822 data

2004-06-13 09:20:21
Exactly what in the process of adding a line (or two) at the beginning 
of the data stream from the network to disk makes you believe MTAs know 
about 2822 content? 

MTAs will often add Message-ID, and Date headers because email 
client don't.   To do so an MTA must parse and understand the 
basic headers of a message. 

Also MTAs might have to translate body types form 8 bit to 7 bit data. 
An MTA can accept a message in 8bitMime but in forwarding the message 
to its final destination might hit another MTA that only takes 7 bit 
encodings.   Postfix for example can do the translation form 8 bit to 
7.  To do so it must understand the message structure. 

There are probably other examples as well. 

Regards, 
Mark Joseph 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf-mxcomp(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org
To: Marshall Rose
Cc: IETF MARID WG
Sent: 6/12/2004 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: MARID charter and using 2822 data


On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 08:08:46PM -0700, Marshall Rose wrote:
wg from considering 2822 as a part of the solution. like it or not
MTAs 
know about 2822 content. in the simplest example of this, consider the

Received: header.

Exactly what in the process of adding a line (or two) at the beginning
of the data stream from the network to disk makes you believe MTAs know
about 2822 content?

        \Maex

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