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.


Good point, should we add an interaction which includes the MDA?