Re: Email Subaddressing

[Chris Newman <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> It would be possible to do something different. Many delivery agents
> record the envelope recipient in a usable format. The MUA could read the
> subaddress and use it for sorting. Chris, would it violate your ``MUST
> NOT automatically create new folders'' requirement if the MUA showed the
> user a list of the subaddresses that had been shown up, and allowed the
> user to browse each subaddress as a folder?

Not as long as the MUA also allows browsing them in a single interface.

The requirement stems from the security issue of not wanting to
unintentially cede control of one's folder namespace to others.  It
probably should be a "SHOULD NOT" with clearer explaination.

		- Chris