Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
-----Original Message-----
To the point where if we were to support such a change at this point, it would
be optional, off by default, and I doubt we'd recommend enabling it.
I'm not really proposing to make this change in a 5322bis or anywhere else.
I'm just curious as to why the current syntax won out over something
that seems less dissonant.
Just to make sure I am following the question, are you referred to the
angle bracketed domain literal?
If so, insights predating 1995-2000 DRUMS years with the 1982 RFC821
and the 1989 "Holy Bible" RFC1123 and the already existing Received:
header format would help with the prior art. RFC1123 cleared it up:
5.2.8 DATA Command: RFC-821 Section 4.1.1
Every receiver-SMTP (not just one that "accepts a message for
relaying or for final delivery" [SMTP:1]) MUST insert a
"Received:" line at the beginning of a message. In this line,
called a "time stamp line" in RFC-821:
* The FROM field SHOULD contain both (1) the name of the
source host as presented in the HELO command and (2) a
domain literal containing the IP address of the source,
determined from the TCP connection.
* The ID field MAY contain an "@" as suggested in RFC-822,
but this is not required.
* The FOR field MAY contain a list of <path> entries when
multiple RCPT commands have been given.
Is this what you are referring to?
What alternative format would you proposed?
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Sincerely
Hector Santos
http://www.santronics.com