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Randall Gellens <randy@qualcomm.com> Wed, 05 December 2007 22:55 UTC

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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:51:01 -0800
To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>, Dave Cridland <dave@cridland.net>
From: Randall Gellens <randy@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: I-D Action:draft-newman-email-subaddr-01.txt
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At 7:18 AM -0800 12/5/07, Keith Moore wrote:

>  I am dubious that MUAs or users should assume that
>  there's a relationship between the subaddress and the name of the folder
>  where that mail ends up.  at least I've found good reasons for them not
>  to be the same.  though admittedly that makes for a more complex user
>  interface.

Yes -- it is better to think of them as a general ability to tag 
inbound mail for some sort of special processing.  The fact that some 
delivery agents have a default rule of delivering into a mailbox 
whose name exactly matches the detail part is merely an optimization.
-- 
Randall Gellens
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