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RE: Is Return-Path as available as we think?

2004-02-02 16:40:39
Justin Mason [jm(_at_)jmason(_dot_)org] wrote:
"Julian Mehnle" writes:
Justin Mason [jm(_at_)jmason(_dot_)org] wrote:
- fetchmail then downloads the message, and looks for an env-from
  to use when it resends it.  It picks the X-Sender header over the
  Return-Path, unfortunately.  There's the error...

What's the reasoning behind this?  Maybe fetchmail is broken anyway?

Yes, it's incorrect.  But there's a lot of broken software on
the internet that we all have to deal with ;)

But definitely NOT by twistedly designing new standards around such broken 
software.

Everyone who has a problem with a new standard that is expressly designed to 
work with *properly* written software should better go fixing the broken 
software instead of complaining.  If one took every broken piece of software 
out there into account when designing a new standard, there'd be no point in 
even beginning.

We already had that discussion wrt. using "Received: SPF" vs. "Received-SPF:".  
Can we finally please stop that?

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