Re: Email Subaddressing

[Bart Schaefer <[e-mail]>]

On Aug 1,  6:55pm, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
} Subject: Re: Email Subaddressing
}
} > So somebody who wants to create and market *only* an LDA or *only* a
} > submission agent should be shut out of the competitive process because
} > there's no way to interoperate?
} 
} I specifically pointed out that submission agents in qmail are
} interchangeable, and that delivery agents are interchangeable even
} across qmail and sendmail.

There must be some set of rules for how submission and delivery agents
have to behave in order to be interchanged.  Isn't what Chris suggests
(at the syntactic level) simply a standardization of one of those rules?

} > How can those remote users obtain the benefits of subaddressing?
} 
} They select software that can easily be configured to handle their local
} subaddresses.

Isn't one of the IETF's goals to help make a wider variety of such software
available?  Doesn't knowing what kinds of configuration are expected help
developers to write configurable software?

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Bart Schaefer                                 Brass Lantern Enterprises
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