Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-msgtrk-trkstat-01.txt

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:08:27 -0800 Chris Newman <[email protected]> 
wrote:


>            The  tracking  algorithms  MUST  NOT allow tracking through
>       list expansions.  When a message  is  delivered  to  a  list,  a
>       tracking request MUST respond with an "expanded" tracking status
>       and MUST NOT display the contents of the list.
> 
> I'm unclear under what conditions to use "delivered" or "expanded" for 
> mailing lists or aliases.  Please fix.

Once again, we refer back to the detailed definitions for each of these 
occurrences in the DSN spec.   Delivery to a mailing list gets the 
"expanded" response.   Delivery to a single alias "relays" normally with a
change in the final recipient.   Delivery to multiple-recipient aliases 
are handled in one of three ways, implementation defined.

I don't believe that we want to screw down the multiple-recipient aliases 
choices any tighter, but we could consider it.

I would be inclined to directly reference section 6.2.7, with specific 
changes for any additional or modified status codes used because we are 
referencing along the chain of delivery.   I don't think that there are 
any.

Cheers.
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Steve Hole
Chief Technology Officer
ACI - MessagingDirect
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