On 8-feb-04, at 3:24, Brett Watson wrote:
Another desirable difference in mail-ng would be for all the delivery
metadata to be transported to the MUA. At the moment, only that
portion of the delivery metadata which finds its way into the 822
headers is transported to the MUA. Much of the routing information has
been lost by this point in time, especially if the message has been
forwarded from one address to another in transit. I see no reason why
the complete delivery path information should not be available to the
MUA. (It's not always clear *why* a particular item has been delivered
to you, and having its full routing history can help.)
I find having all this "received by" "virus-scanned by" "43 ant-spam
tests done" and so on stuff that can be found in many messages today
rather annoying. For mailing list messages the headders are often
bigger than the message itself. We really need to make people use a bit
more restraint here.
Maybe a mechanism that lets the sender and/or the receiver indicate how
much "life history" they want to be recorded would be in order? Then
this kind of stuff can be left out or if it's already there, removed if
this is desired.
I fully agree with the idea that we need to separate three types of
information: the actual message, end-to-end metadata and hop-by-hop
metadata.