Re: [marf] Including Mail fields in IODEF

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 03 March 2013 16:26 UTC

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In article <CAL0qLwZxwkcJi7Ej0fU5s8k-xZ=n_4fa0cvVVF05YtQPc3Ndag@mail.gmail.com>,
Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com> wrote:
>The issue with MARF inside IODEF is that the receiver needs to know that
>the payload being provided inside an EmailMessage element is itself an ARF
>report, and not the message that caused the report in the first place.  You
>certainly could crack open the EmailMessage content and see if conforms to
>the ARF specification to tell which kind of report you've gotten, but that
>seems inelegant.

You also couldn't recognize a complaint about a misdirected ARF report.  That
sort of overloading of fields usually leads to sadness and regret.

>I suppose then another option is an extension element that indicates you've
>received an ARF payload rather than the actual offending message.

That could do it.  Or if you're going to do that, crack apart the ARF report,
put the feedback-report part in the new element, and the message in the
message element.

R's,
John

[marf] Including Mail fields in IODEF Moriarty, Kathleen
Re: [marf] Including Mail fields in IODEF Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Re: [marf] Including Mail fields in IODEF Alessandro Vesely
Re: [marf] Including Mail fields in IODEF Murray S. Kucherawy
Re: [marf] Including Mail fields in IODEF Panos Kampanakis (pkampana)
Re: [marf] Including Mail fields in IODEF Murray S. Kucherawy
Re: [marf] Including Mail fields in IODEF John Levine
Re: [marf] Including Mail fields in IODEF Panos Kampanakis (pkampana)
Re: [marf] Including Mail fields in IODEF Murray S. Kucherawy
Re: [marf] Including Mail fields in IODEF Moriarty, Kathleen