[51337] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Fri Aug 23 13:20:55 2002
In-Reply-To: <20020823165559.43F59AC@proven.weird.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 19:18:01 +0200
To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods),
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: Martin Cooper <mjc@cooper.org.uk>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 12:55 PM -0400 2002/08/23, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> All correctly implemented SMTP mailers _MUST_ modify the envelope sender
> address when forwarding a message to the target address(es) of an alias.
That's a new requirement in a new RFC. How many sites are there
in the world that run older MTAs that do not necessarily always
implement this rule? Indeed, are there any MTAs which exist today
that enforce this rule in all cases? Even if you do have an MTA
which implements this rule, what if all you have is the alias, and
there is no "-owner" or "owner-" address defined?
So, you run a big site, with tens of millions of customers. Are
you going to tell them all to "piss off" if they're subscribed to a
mailing list that is not implemented according to this rule?
Riiiiiiiiight.
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