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

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Tue, 16 February 2021 00:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] what's not a trace field
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> On 2/14/2021 5:30 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
>> FYI, Delivered-To is not always added by an MDA.  Sometimes, as in the 
>> example I sent a few messages back, it's added by the MTA when it rewrites 
>> an address internally.
>
> It's almost amusing to think that a field specific to delivery is affixed by 
> a module that doesn't do deliveries.  But only almost. ...

I was under the impressiom that our goal here was to document the 
long-standing existing practice of software that adds Delvered-To headers.

If that's not the case, we're wasting our time and we should abandon the 
draft now.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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