Re: utf8 messages

Mark Martinec <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It is not possible (even in the absence of SMTPUTF8 support) to be
> able to transfer e-mail messages with no out-of-band ("metadata" /
> envelope) information. The most obvious reason is the list of
> recipient addresses, which is not present in a message itself.

That is what the BCC: header is for (before message submission, if not
at other times).

> Envelope sender may or may not be present in a mail header
> (as a Return-Path header field).

Right.

> Other examples are RFC 3461 data (RET, ENVID, NOTIFY, ORCPT).

I think it was a mistake not to specify in-header versions of those
directives.

Tony.
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