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.
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