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Re: [ietf-smtp] Proper definition of the term "email payload".

"Valdis Kl=?utf-8?Q?=c4=93?=tnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Mon, 01 April 2019 04:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] Proper definition of the term "email payload".
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On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:53:27 -0400, John C Klensin said:

> The difficult with a term like "payload" is that the definition
> depends on where one is looking from.  Internet email is a
> layered system and the perspective depends on the layer.  For
> SMTP (from RFC 821 through 5321 fairly consistently), what it is
> transferring ("the payload") would be the message content

And then there's "payload" as seen from the Ethernet, IP, and TCP
layers... 

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