Re: SMTP RFC: "MUST NOT" change or delete Received header

Hector Santos <hsantos@isdg.net> Sat, 29 March 2014 16:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: SMTP RFC: "MUST NOT" change or delete Received header
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On 3/29/2014 12:43 PM, Scott Brim wrote:
> I think the privacy beach from exposing intermediate steps is small,
> and in some cases knowledge of the routing may be required by law.

That has always been my engineering understanding, and it predated the 
IETF RFC electronic mail format.

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HLS