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

2021-08-06 13:57:13
On 8/6/2021 11:45 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
On 6 Aug 2021, at 2:37 pm, Dave Crocker <dhc(_at_)dcrocker(_dot_)net> wrote:

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

If an MUA wants to learn the envelope recipient address to which the
message was sent (by the immediate upstream MUA or relay) then Delivered-To
is not the right header for that.  That's why Exim has Envelope-To, while
Postfix has "X-Original-To:", both of which are intended for consumption by
tools like fetchmail.

So you are saying that it is not possible for one Delivered-To to show the actual address it has been delivered to, followed by another Delivered-To that shows a local transformation to an internal delivery string?

Or are you saying that Delivered-To has nothing to do with delivery?



The draft as written does not preclude the present use of Delivered-To, but
its "Experimental" status still makes no sense to me,

1. That's irrelevant to the current issue.

2. It's been explained. Please refer to my earlier note that provides quite a bit of detail for that explanation.


d/

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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net

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