Re: Summary of interests ..

Jesse Dougherty wrote:
> Also, It looks like people are interested in the following
> communications:
> 
> 1) communicating filtering decisions made at the MTA to the MUA

This is usually already done at headers, but may surely be improved.

> 2) providing feedback on errors/preference from the MUA to the MTA

This isn't an easy task...

Nowadays, most MTA mail filters (milters, postfix filters and so) works 
at the MTA level and use information from the "RCPT" SMTP command. They 
don't know if the recipient address is a final address or an address 
which will be rewritten, such as an alias, an address with a forward, a 
list address, etc.

It's a good idea to have users preferences available to filters when 
they're doing their job, but users preferences is probably easier 
handled by the MDA (mail delivery agent), not by the MTA. Otherwise, 
filters will need to redo all rewritting work already done by the MTA, 
or be more integrated on MTA work flow.

All this means, having user preferences available to filters at MTA 
level shall modify a little the architecture of current MTAs.

My two cents... 8-)

> 3) communicating filtering data between MTAs and/or MUAs (innoculation)
> 
> Please add to this list if you feel there are other interactions we
> should be considering ...
> 
> Once we identify the communications which people agree would benefit
> from some standardization I suggest that we need to identfy list members
> who are willing to produce a quick "requirements" draft describing the
> problem being solved.  These should be distributed for comment.
> 
> Anyone have any feedback on this approach?
> 
> --
> Jesse Dougherty
> Director of Development, Sophos
> Email: [email protected]
> Direct: 604 484 6434
> Web: www.sophos.com
> Sophos - protecting businesses against viruses and spam
> 
> 
> 
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