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Certified email: comment on draft-gennai-smime-cnipa-pec-00.text

2008-10-21 11:31:42
Hi all
I'm a PEC technician and a component of the open source project
OpenPEC (www.openpec.org).

I would like to talk about the SMTP diagnostic in PEC systems.

I think that it could be very useful to enrich the PEC with a sort of
SMTP-diagnostic management feature and give more feedbacks to
the users, also in case of failed deliveries.

Suppose that a PEC users sends a message to a non-existent ordinary
recipient and that PEC provider system receives a SMTP 5xx error type.
If it doesn't propagate this error, the sender won't be able to know that
his message could not be delivered.

The solution could be forwarding the error message into an anomaly
envelope containing a short description of the problem

In this way the PEC user could receive negative feedbacks (failed
deliveries) in a homogeneous mode, i.e. with a PEC-format message
(anomaly envelope).

Best regards

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[Umberto Ferrara]
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