Re: [ietf-smtp] what's not a trace field

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Tue, 16 February 2021 00:49 UTC

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From: Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>
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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] what's not a trace field
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On 2/15/2021 4:43 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
> Delivered-To is clearly a trace header field, just like 
> Authentication-Results is.  I looked at your arguments about why you 
> think it's not and I do not see how they follow from either 5321 nor 
> from our multi-decade experience of MTAs adding trace headers.


That's impressive.  I asked for comment on revised text and yet you 
continue not to provide any.

Try stepping away from the philosophical back hole of the term.

Consider the revised text as offered and if there is something about it 
that is unworkable or inappropriate, please explain what that is.


d/

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Dave Crocker
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