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Re: SMTP RFC: "MUST NOT" change or delete Received header

2014-03-29 12:04:18


On Sat, 29 Mar 2014, Hector Santos wrote:

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was pruned.  If there was a support need, you enabled the preservation of the
full RFC headers and told the user "try it again."

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headers. Thats information you certainly don't need 80% (pareto) of the time.

The problem with the "try it again" approach is that there is no assurance
the failure will repeat. Information lost, is just lost, making end user
support on the 20% (your number) of the cases where there is a problem
impossible. Etc.