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

Francesco Gennai <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Aug 2021 09:50:07 +0200
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Following the discussion, I see that the delivery-to is currently used
(in many cases) to loop detection.
In such cases it could contain an email address, a token, etc..
I suspect that at the top of the problems discussed here there is a
conflict in the header name (deliverd-to:), between the current use
and the draft.
I would say that "delivered-to:" is not the best name for the current
use (loop detection), but... it is there.

Francesco

On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 1:50 AM Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Viktor Dukhovni writes:
>
> > The "Delivered-To" header has been in wide use
> > since it was introduced IIRC by Dan Bernstein in Qmail.
>
> Yup. I aped it in Courier, somewhere in the mid to late 1990s. It also found
> its way to others, pretty much as advertised.
>
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