Re: New proposal about forwarding

Raymond S Brand <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:34:40 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.asrg.rmx
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I received a comment from a reader of my draft
> which sounds interestingly, therefore I'd like
> to forward it to you even if I have not yet
> checked the RFCs 821 and 2821:
> 
> The proposal is to replace the envelope sender
> address when forwarding into
> 
> [email protected]:[email protected]
> 
> which (allegedly) conforms to RFC 821, and
> RFC 2821 still requires all MTAs to support it.

This ``source routing''. It has a long and unpleasant
history. Check appendix C of rfc2821; the feature is
listed as deprecated.


Raymond S Brand