Re: [ietf-822] WSJ/gmail/ML, was a permission to...

Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> Mon, 05 May 2014 08:10 UTC

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On Sun 04/May/2014 15:03:02 +0200 John Levine wrote:
>> Isn't that one of those changes that Miles talked about in [1]?
>> [1] http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg87865.html
>>
>> Many SMTP servers used to standardize message format, and stopped in
>> order to avoid breaking DKIM signatures.  Won't ML do so too?
> 
> I think you're confusing SMTP with SUBMIT here.

No, I didn't mean to.  Since you raised this topic, I think it's part
of submission servers' duties to check format and content (e.g. From:)
of outgoing messages, before signing.  SMTP receivers used to
standardize header and MIME structure too (e.g. encoding
auto-conversion); they stopped after DKIM, IME.

The question is where do MLMs position themselves in that respect?
Perhaps somewhere in between?

Ale