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Re: TECH-ERROR/DOC-BUG: empty fields in -pra

2004-09-06 05:41:56

<terry(_at_)ashtonwoodshomes(_dot_)com> writes:

The header fields are there for a reason, its an inline log of the email to 
assist mail
administrators to diagnose email issues (not just forgery/phishing, but also 
routing issues,
secondary MX issues, etc).  (Or allow skilled email users to analyze validity 
of incoming mail).

Suppressing this type of information is unacceptable to me, and my admins who 
are told to look at
the headers BEFORE calling support.

I agree with all of that. Yet at the moment there is no PRA header
inserted by the MTA. All the other headers would be left intact and
each email would have just one additional header (showing the PRA as
calculated and authenticated) inserted by the final MTA or MDA. This
would be useful to both the MUA and the admin examining headers. So
nothing would be taken away from the information currently available.