Re: [apps-discuss] Call for adoption of draft-kucherawy-mta-malformed-00.txt as an APPSAWG document

"Murray S. Kucherawy" <msk@cloudmark.com> Fri, 08 July 2011 14:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Call for adoption of draft-kucherawy-mta-malformed-00.txt as an APPSAWG document
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: apps-discuss-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:apps-discuss-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of John R Levine
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> Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Call for adoption of draft-kucherawy-mta-malformed-00.txt as an APPSAWG document
> 
> Well, I did carefully say MSAs in that sentence.  You're right, picky
> enforcement of RFC 5322 and its predecessors on mail from strangers tends
> to lose more sloppy legit mail than unwanted mail.
> 
> I think it'd be worth noting that MSAs can and should be stricter about
> what they accept than relay MTAs are.

I'd be fine with that.