Re: homework, not an experiment, draft-crocker-email-deliveredto

On 8/4/2021 10:00 AM, John Levine wrote:
>>>     "Delivered-To:" FWS Mailbox CRLF
>>>                      ; Mailbox is from [SMTP]
> The thing after the FWS is an opaque token. Sometimes it may look like
> a mailbox, sometimes not. And even if it looks like a mailbox, it
> often is*not*  a mailbox. You can't use it for delayed running of
> procmail or redelivery via fetchmail or anything else that expects a
> mailbox.
> 
> As a concrete example, if you send mail [email protected], here's the Delivered-To
> 
>   Delivered-To:[email protected]


Folks,

John just sent me a private note, seeking to use the above message, from 
the thread here, as 'proof' that current draft for Deliver-To does not 
suit, with his view that the delivery 'token' is different from the 
other use for handling tracing.

Unfortunately this mostly demonstrates that he hasn't bothered to read 
the current draft, since it was modified to cover this case (and some 
others that we have actually data for.)

One of these days, John might actually engage with the substance of this 
topic and deal with the available data, rather than simply gaslighting 
with his own assertions that, so far, lack supporting data.

d/

-- 
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net