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Re: Email Subaddressing

Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> Thu, 31 July 1997 22:28 UTC

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:09:39 -0700
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Comments: In reply to "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu> "Re: Email Subaddressing" (Jul 31, 9:36pm)
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On Jul 31,  9:36pm, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> Subject: Re: Email Subaddressing
> > but you included as a local configuration problem
> > the case where the MUA needs to supply a return address.
> 
> MUAs typically pass a partially formed message to a submission agent
> supplied with the MTA.
> 
> The submission agent figures out From, Return-Path, etc., from a
> combination of sysadmin configuration and user configuration.

All this does is push the question off a level.  Is it desirable to be able
to mix and match MTA, delivery agent, and submission agent?

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