Re: Reply-To

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Bruce Lilly wrote:

>> s/Received/Return-Path/ (or is this some pre-821 history ?)
 
> RFC 821's predecessor, RFC 788:

Oh, yes, I should have known this, I read the "SMTP history"
archive at rfc-editor.org (once - looking for new "evidence"
for we-all-know-what-and-are-seriously-tired-of-it... :-)

>> Ordinary users are most probably not often interested in the
>> timespamp lines
[...]
> Interesting typo; maybe the lines should in fact be referred
> to as "timespam".

I fear you've to be very brave when you start your first DKIM
review.  Until then I hope that I've found out why they _copy_
the signed header fields - it must be something obvious.

> The problem with UAs suppressing header fields is that some
> of them suppress important fields which communicate
> information from the message originator to recipients (e.g.
> Reply-To).

Normally I trust that my UA just does the right thing, Re:Mail
to Reply-To, or without Reply-To to the From.  The one thing I
simply didn't expect was that you manually set Reply-To: list.

No idea how to fix this, UAs trying to be smarter than their
user are in trouble.  In that case I was the stupid user, and
I didn't like the experience, I want to be smarter than my UA.

> It's a tough problem for a UA author, as there is no way to
> automatically determine whether some new message header field
> is a new originator field (which should not be suppressed) or
> some transport noise (which should be suppressed).

Or some wannabe-Received-SPF / Authentication-Results where an
implementor is sure that everything he does could be dangerous.

The usual game, there will be a way to configure the behaviour,
most users won't do this resulting in some default, and that
default will be very bad for some constellations.  Bye, Frank



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