Re: draft-crocker-email-deliveredto

On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, George Michaelson wrote:
> Prior use is a problem, I agree.

I don't see why it's a problem.  The reasonable thing for this draft to do 
is to describe the well established existing practice, since that practice 
is not going to change.

>> It turns out not to be useful for procmail. MTAs invariably have other
>> ways to tell procmail what the current delivery address is, via a command
>> line argument or environment variable, and it's up to the local
>> configuration whether to add the Delivered-To before the message is
>> passed to procmail.
>
> I simply don't agree John.

Um, I'm not speaking hypothetically here.  I've been running mail through 
pracmail with this setup for 20 years.  A lot of other qmail and procmail 
and courier users do, too.

Regards,
John Levine, [email protected], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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