Re: SMTP Use Cases

At 17:03 22/10/2004, Markus Hofmann wrote:


>Martin Stecher wrote:
>
>>3. Examples for mail forwarding options or other side effects:
>>- Delay a message of a certain size or content
>>- Send virus notifications to others when virus has been detected
>>- Move email to a special queue (e.g. Spam queue)
>>- Drop a (spam) message
>>- Out of office replies
>
>- Stripping of large attachments from emails, putting them on a Web
>   server, and replace the attachment in email with a URL to that
>   server file

This is a first step ahead towards what I name "weemail" (and end of 
spam)  :-) This a firewall middlebox fonction. Certainly a good fonction. 
But is it an edge function? Why this content massaging (true for every mail 
service) would be specific to SMTP?

Why not to review the charter and talk of "mail services"? And review the 
reference to MTAs.
There actually tools (design, protocol, etc) and application to types of 
exchanges under serveral protocols.
jfc