Re: I-D Action:draft-newman-email-subaddr-01.txt

Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Wed, 05 December 2007 10:54 UTC

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On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Dave Cridland wrote:
>
> An MUA wishing to provide a user-friendly UI to subaddressing also needs to
> know the convention, in order to be capable of forming local-parts for use in
> both message header fields and envelope reverse-paths. If it's additionally
> performing some specific actions on message which are to be considered
> directly addressed to the user, then it needs to know for this, too.

A particular example would be an in-MUA Sieve implementation.

Tony.
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