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

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Sat, 07 Aug 2021 06:35:23 -0400

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Francesco Gennai writes:

> 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.

Loop detection is not the purpose of this header, but loop detection makes  
use of it, this is a nuanced distinction.

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