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"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 11 January 2019 21:48 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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On Fri, 11 Jan 2019, Gene Hightower wrote:
>> For any non-trivial mail system, that level of complexity is quite
>> typical.
>
> Yes, for the complicated case, it's complicated.
>
> But how many people use a webmail service, access their mail via the
> web interface and delivery is direct, one hop?  Maybe it's 99.x% of
> email users?  The 0.y% of power users with procmail rules and strange
> forwarding and all that keep using DATA with base64.

If you think that the internals of a system like gmail or yahoo are 
simple, you don't know much about webmail.  They don't have procmail but 
they provide very complex per-user processing.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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