ietf-openproxy
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: SMTP Use Cases

2004-10-22 08:37:09

At 17:03 22/10/2004, Markus Hofmann wrote:


Martin Stecher wrote:

3. Examples for mail forwarding options or other side effects:
- Delay a message of a certain size or content
- Send virus notifications to others when virus has been detected
- Move email to a special queue (e.g. Spam queue)
- Drop a (spam) message
- Out of office replies

- Stripping of large attachments from emails, putting them on a Web
  server, and replace the attachment in email with a URL to that
  server file

This is a first step ahead towards what I name "weemail" (and end of spam) :-) This a firewall middlebox fonction. Certainly a good fonction. But is it an edge function? Why this content massaging (true for every mail service) would be specific to SMTP?

Why not to review the charter and talk of "mail services"? And review the reference to MTAs. There actually tools (design, protocol, etc) and application to types of exchanges under serveral protocols.
jfc



<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>