Re: [Asrg] Iteration #3.

"Chris Lewis" <clewis@nortel.com> Sat, 06 February 2010 17:33 UTC

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Derek Diget wrote:

> =>This also allows <domain> to use DNS to map them to somewhere else entirely.
> 
> -1 for having a "standard" address.  Let sites decided.  Some might want 
> them to go to abuse@, spam@, devnull@, spam-training@anti-spam.vendor.  

Defeats the purpose of self-configuration, UNLESS the mailstore provider 
can automatically provide it.  See my posting under "We don't need no 
stinking..." for a method to do it with TXT records.

> I have deleted the message, but Thursday someone (you?) had a post with 
> regard to having the final MTA insert a header with the ARF reporting 
> address?  I like that idea, but would replace MTA with MDA.  An MTA 
> never really knows if it is the "last" MTA, where an MDA does.

We don't want to modify _anything_ in the mail stream if we can possibly 
avoid it.  If we do, sites can't do this without infrastructure changes 
(which may never happen in some environments).  Eg: if Microsoft elects 
not to follow this spec, we've just disenfranchised Exchange environments.

Having it purely in the UA, and perhaps DNS for signalling, make it a 
_lot_ easier to deploy.