Re: One user, many addresses

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 11:56, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
> The next-generation protocol might allow
> multiple names to all refer to a single mailbox.

The *existing* protocol allows that ("aliases"), and its converse, where one 
mail address maps to many mailboxes ("mailing list"). The concepts of "email 
address" and "mailbox" are somewhat separate already. SMTP, as a protocol, 
only deals with email addresses and message transfer. Mailboxes, being the 
repositories into which messages are commonly stashed, are in the domain of 
message delivery, not message transfer.

In passing, I would say that this model ought to be kept for mail-ng. That is 
to say, that the "endpoints" of mail-ng will still be email addresses, and 
these may map to mailboxes and other mail-accepting agents in an arbitrary 
N:M sort of manner. In fact, I don't see how it could be any other way.

Regards,
TFBW