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Re: [Emailcore] Return-Path and Delivered-To issues

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 05 January 2021 21:53 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
To: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@bbiw.net>, emailcore@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [Emailcore] Return-Path and Delivered-To issues
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On Tue, 5 Jan 2021, Dave Crocker wrote:

> On 1/5/2021 12:56 PM, John Levine wrote:
>> Having written a lot of code that does this, I can say that it is
>> often, maybe mostly, the MTA that drops the message into the mailbox.
>
> If it 'drops the messag into the mailbox' then i is acting in the role of an 
> MDA.  By definition.

Indeed, but ...

>> Unless someone believes that the current text is confusing people or
>> causing interoperability problems, please leave it alone. We already
>> have plenty to do.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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