Re: Mailing lists as 2822-Sender (was: Responsibility vs. Validity)

Tony Finch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.dkim,gmane.ietf.rfc822,gmane.ietf.smtp
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I don't recall anyone considering using Resent- fields for this until
> just now, but I could easily have missed it

I think it's a cute idea, but Resent- fields are an interop nightmare
because the 822 specification is too weak to work in general (e.g. a
sequence of multiple resendings) and the 2822 specification is not
entirely compatible and not widely implemented.

Tony.
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