Re: [Jmap] Address Validation (was Re: Submission)

Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm> Mon, 24 April 2017 01:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Jmap] Address Validation (was Re: Submission)
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On Sat, 22 Apr 2017, at 11:34, Adrien de Croy wrote:
> 
> "two mechanisms to perform the same function is poor design"
> 
> Sorry I missed this one on the Mt Sinai tablets.

There's no need to be nasty.  Chill it please.  We're a professional working group.

Chris Newman wrote:
> This is quite extensible and I believe this specific functionality is 
> in-scope of the JMAP charter as Submission (RFC 6409) is explicitly 
> in-scope. Doing address validation this way is already quite powerful. 
> For example, if the submission server chooses to implement the SMTP 
> 251/551 response codes for local users, the mail client gains the 
> ability to prompt the user to correct the address book entry for that 
> recipient.

Without getting bogged down in exact details just yet, we should address this question:

Do we want JMAP-Mail to include a facility to check whether an address would be accepted for mail delivery by the server - presumably the result is a tristate of [definite YES, Unknown, definite NO] via whatever response method is used.

Cheers,

Bron.

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