Re: Another round of the mailserver URL
Paul Hoffman (ietf-lists@proper.com)
Sat, 8 Jul 1995 09:14:31 -0700
Message-Id: <v02120c11ac245c2d1d48@[165.227.40.14]>
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 09:14:31 -0700
To: dupuy@smarts.com (Alexander Dupuy)
From: ietf-lists@proper.com (Paul Hoffman)
Subject: Re: Another round of the mailserver URL
Cc: uri@bunyip.com
>I noticed that the suggestion that clients implementing the mailserver URL put
>a header into generated messages indicating the source of the mailserver
>URL which generated the message didn't make it into the new draft. This seems
>like an extremely useful feature, not just for identifying the culprits in
>cases where URLs are used to deliver, but also for mailserver administrators
>who may be interested in how people are finding out about them.
>
>Was there a reason that no such suggestion was made?
It was:
>The mail client software may do more than this;
>for example, the client software might check the configured user ID
>using SMTP VRFY before sending a message, or adding other useful
>headers such as "Comments" and "Content-id".
I guess I could be more explicit with suggestions about what should be in
the Comments header.