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Re: [ietf-smtp] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-melnikov-smtp-metadata-00.txt

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Sun, 22 March 2015 20:31 UTC

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On 22/03/2015 20:16, John Levine wrote:
  [snip]
> An alternative to what this draft does is to define some new MIME
> multipart types and wrap everything in a new message.  That has the
> disadvantage that it's ugly, but the advantage that MTAs including
> relays don't need to know about it and it's arguably* faster.
Indeed.
> So I think it would work fine if people implemented it, but unless
> there's a very concrete use case and people ready write and deploy
> those implementations, I wouldn't bother.
Fair comment, see use case examples in the document.

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