On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:28:18PM -0400, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
You are correct that MUAs will need to change.
It is far from reality to assume that sufficient many MUAs will
change within 1-2 years.
The SUBMITTER draft assumes familiarity with the core/PRA
document. Section 7.5 of that document reads:
7.5 MUA Implementers
When displaying a received message, an MUA SHOULD display the
purported responsible address as defined by this document whenever
that address differs from the RFC 2822 From address. This display
SHOULD be in addition to the RFC 2822 From address.
This does not answer the question.
How does the information find it's way to the MUA? The SUBMITTER is
not an RFC2822 information. Were does it find it's place in a standard
Unix mbox file without changing the mbox file format? How does IMAP
support this? POP? What about UUCP? How should a MUA be able to display an
information as long as there is no defined way how the MTA should
pass the information to the MUA?
How many protocols, file formats and software do you intend to change?
Has anyone ever implemented this?
Hadmut