At 12:49 PM -0400 7/12/00, Dave Sill wrote:
>I'm not an RFC lawyer, but a quick look 821/822 doesn't turn up
>anything that prohibits MTA's from arbitrarily munging messages. (!)
>And, of course, that only covers MTA<->MTA transactions. Once the MTA
>passes the message off to the MDA (delivery agent), all bets are off.
Since I just added de-mime to my new server, you sure won't see me
saying they should leave the message alone. Stripping all mime but
the plaintext is a much bigger "thing" than tweaking like they do,
and if you think about it, everyone who runs a server that adds
subject line id's is doing that, too.
> >Just because they're big doesn't mean they're by definition wrong here.
>
>And just because they aren't violating an RFC (if, in fact, they
>aren't) doesn't mean they're right, either.
True. I'm not saying they're right. I think this is simply one of
those cases where two independent groups have done things that simply
don't interoperate properly. There's no "right" or "wrong", and it
sure isn't fun being in the middle. but it's a fact of life in the
e-mail world that these things happen.
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