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Re: "Header Reordering", yet again

2005-05-31 15:49:06


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Ellermann" <nobody(_at_)xyzzy(_dot_)claranet(_dot_)de>
To: <ietf-smtp(_at_)imc(_dot_)org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: "Header Reordering", yet again


Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:

Why do you expect the unwashed heathen masses to upgrade
anytime soon?

If they install SPF checks _and_ add SPF-Received header
fields _and_ manage to shuffle these header fields before
the mail arrives in your mailbox tell them to stop this.

Or as RfC 3834 put it for the case of a missing Return-Path:

| It is better to fix the problem with the mail delivery
| system than to rely on heuristics to guess the appropriate
| destination of the response.  Such heuristics have been
| known to cause problems in the past.

Hey Crash Mail! 

You are making way too much sense!  stop it! <g>

-- 
Hector Santos, Santronics Software, Inc.
http://www.santronics.com