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Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
- From: Martin Cooper
- Date: Fri Aug 23 06:42:31 2002
Brad Knowles writes:
> At 12:56 AM +0000 2002/08/22, Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> i won't glock up this already busy list with a full copy of the proposal,
> but before y'all go off and invent something, here's some prior art that's
> been resoundingly pooh-pooh'd by the smtp community.
>
> http://www.vix.com/~vixie/mailfrom.txt
>
> Yeah, the problem is that this breaks mailing lists, just like other
> proposals. Otherwise, it would seem to be a nice concept.
How does it break mailing-lists? If the list sets the envelope sender
to <list-request@listserv.domain.com> creating a MAIL-FROM shouldn't
be a problem. The only problem I can see is what to do about bounces
(i.e. with a null envelope sender) - guess you could use header From
instead maybe.
Martin
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