Re: Comments on Malformed Message BCP draft
"Murray S. Kucherawy" <[email protected]>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Moore [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:49 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Dave Cridland; ietf-822; General discussion of application-layer protocols; Murray S. Kucherawy > Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Comments on Malformed Message BCP draft > > I do think there's room for some sort of "if you must do this bad > thing, please do it this way" document series from IETF. > > However, I don't think that would be applicable to having third party > mail relays repair malformed messages. I think that's no longer "best > way to do something that has the potential to do harm" and closer to > "how to make a bad situation worse". > > Of course, the devil is in the details. I don't think this work is targeted at intermediaries. In fact, I'd be completely fine with expressly saying it's meant to address processing at ingress MTAs only.