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Re: [ietf-smtp] homework, not an experiment, draft-crocker-email-deliveredto

2021-08-06 13:38:21
On 8/6/2021 11:28 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
Why use one field that is sufficient when we can pretend two are needed?
Well, Envelope-To: records the envelope address as received from upstream,
e.g. in the "RCPT TO" command.  While "Delivered-To:" is some internal
representation of the receiving mailbox for loop detection.

The former can be expected to match a usable email address as specified
in the incoming envelope.

So the two are in fact semantically distinct, even when they happen to
coincide in the absence of rewrites, hashing, ...


Please explain how the current deliveredto draft does not satisfy these uses with a single field.

d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net

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