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Re: [ietf-smtp] spinning our wheels, was Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-crocker-email-deliveredto-02.txt

Hector Santos <hsantos@isdg.net> Tue, 02 March 2021 00:29 UTC

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From: Hector Santos <hsantos@isdg.net>
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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] spinning our wheels, was Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-crocker-email-deliveredto-02.txt
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For the record, after 25 years, Wildcat! SMTP (or did Wildcat! UUCP) 
have never needed, nor considered, nor knew existed nor did we looked 
the "Delivered-To" header.

What problem does it solve?

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Hector Santos,
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On 2/21/2021 3:28 PM, John Levine wrote:
> The original motivation for this draft was to document the way that existing MTAs
> such as Postfix, Courier, and qmail have added Delivered-To headers for over 20 years.
>
> This draft does not do that.  What it describes is nothing like the behavior of those
> MTAs, so I don't understand what it is supposed to do.
>
> I have two suggestions of how to proceed. My preferred one is to
> abandon this draft, then we all go down the hall to emailcore and help
> with the updates of 5321 and 5322. That should be able to clarify what
> trace headers are and fix the ABNF in 5322 to deal with more trace
> headers than Received. After we've done that, people who are familar
> with the relevant MTAs (Sam and me, I think) can do a very short draft
> describing existing Delivered-To practice as a trace header.
>
> Alternatively, if we want to progress the current draft, change the header name to something
> like Recipient-Address so people don't confuse it with Delivered-To.
>
> R's,
> John
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