Re: Open Issue: Stored strings vs. queries.

At 7:50 PM +0100 2/13/03, Marc Mutz wrote:
>One might very well say that a mail header is a request (in that the
>user enters it and the SMTP server for the given domain needs to look
>it up to return success or failure), so that it's slots would fall into
>the "query" category. And naturally, one would like to have the content
>of the message headers and that of the smtp commands be subject to the
>same rules, now that 282{1,2} agree on the mailbox definition.
>
>However, the POV that the message is stored and it's addresses will be
>subject to queries (e.g. by user filtering or searching) isn't way off,
>too. There's also the argument that what the server looks up is the
>argument given to SMTP's RCPT TO command, not what's in the header
>fields.

This doesn't match the general definition of queries and stored in 
Stringprep. I cannot see how a header would be considered a query. It 
isn't asking for anything, it is a part of the message.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium