Re: Delivery Notifications in SMTP

John C Klensin <KLENSIN@infoods.mit.edu> Wed, 06 October 1993 02:32 UTC

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From: John C Klensin <KLENSIN@infoods.mit.edu>
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>The core DR information is carried in the body of the message, where
>it cannot be touched by nasty mailers!

And where it cannot be seen by any mailer not specially trained to
recognize it.   Mailers that are so trained are basically X.400
processors, even if they use 822 syntax forms.  That is not a very
interesting population.

   john