Re: Intent to revive "expires" header from draft-ietf-mailext-new-fields-15
"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]>
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In <[email protected]> Keith Moore <[email protected]> writes: >I think it's rather odd that people are arguing that a proposed >extension to the 822 (i.e. user-to-user) protocol can only be used by >what is arguably mail transport (or on the boundary between transport >and the recipient's user agent). It certainly doesn't belong in SMTP. >Nor does it belong in a body part, since it's clearly a message-level >function. Eh? That header has no meaning whatsoever for RFC 2821 transport. Its only possible effects arise _after_ 'final delivery', at which point it is sitting in some sort of 'mailbox' (be it IMAP, POP3, or Hector's grand archive with alread-existing purging mechanisms). So the feature certainly has to be in an RFC 2822 header, if it exists at all. -- Charles H. Lindsey ---------At Home, doing my own thing------------------------ Tel: +44 161 436 6131 Fax: +44 161 436 6133 Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~chl Email: [email protected] Snail: 5 Clerewood Ave, CHEADLE, SK8 3JU, U.K. PGP: 2C15F1A9 Fingerprint: 73 6D C2 51 93 A0 01 E7 65 E8 64 7E 14 A4 AB A5