Re: what does Delivered-To do, was Re: Fwd: New Version Notification

>> xargs grep -i ^Delivered-to: > /tmp/deliveries
>> [~/Mail] wc /tmp/over20
>>   35421  35421 507694 /tmp/over20
>> [~/Mail] wc /tmp/deliveries
>>   13694  31246 801887 /tmp/deliveries
>> 
>> So literally*last century*  40% of the mail I kept around arrived with a
>> Delivered-To: tag.  None were local deliveries in my mailbox, and the vast
>> majority were various mailing lists (9,759 were various SecurityFocus 
>> lists,
>> 2,306 from the NANOG list, and 1,629 from a total of 54 different sources
>> from literally every continent.
>
> That's nice.  However it does nothing to tell us what was IN those header 
> fields.  That's the issue that is being contested.

Glad to hear we agree that the sensible approach is to research and 
document the existing practice.

It's still fairly hard, though.  I expect that all of those headers 
contain something that looks like a mailbox, but there's no 
straightforward way to tell from outside whether it is a loop breaking 
token or an actual mailbox.

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