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

Chris Newman <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:59:19 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.msgtrk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--On Wednesday, June 20, 2001 19:57 -0700 Eric Allman 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> OK, I've added the following paragraph after the list of possible actions:
>
> There may be some confusion between when to use
> .q expanded
> versus
> .q delivered .
> Whenever possible,
> .q expanded
> should be used when the MTA knows that the message will be sent to
> multiple addresses.
> However, in some cases the delivery occurs to a program
> which, unknown to the MTA, causes mailing list expansion;
> in the extreme case, the delivery may be to a real mailbox
> that has the side effect of list expansion.
> If the MTA cannot ensure that this delivery will cause list expansion,
> it should set the action to
> .q delivered .
>
> Does this adequately clarify things?

Sounds good to me.

		- Chris