On 12/8/20 11:04 AM, Jesse Thompson via mailop wrote:
I think your later statement suggests that you *almost* like the idea ;-) but would prefer the implementation to occur at the MUA level instead of manipulation by MTAs.
Dislike of one thing (showing the friendly from) is not support for another thing (munging / removing the friendly from).
I am almost always against having an MTA modify a message, save for adding headers.
Anecdotally (I don't have hard numbers), I think that conditionally stripping/munging the Friendly From is an effective alternative to doing things like adding [EXTERNAL] tags to Subjects and bodies - which are common strategies employed by enterprises.
I can't agree with that. I feel like adding an "[EXTERNAL]" or "[Mailing list]" tag serves a different purpose than altering / hiding the friendly from.
Plus, simply stripping the Friendly From is so subtle that users hardly even notice - partially because it's mitigated by address book resolution. The only team in our organization who bothered to inquire was from our CRM team who was using Friendly From to soft match on contacts.
I agree that stripping the friendly from can be subtle. But it still breaks some things like client side DKIM. I feel like it's bad form.
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