Richard Dawe wrote:

What does "secure" mean? Does it mean that the mail was authenticated? Or does it mean that it came via an encrypted channel (e.g.: TLS)? Or both/either things?

Well, since it's a boolean, it should be fairly obvious that it's not authentication. Since Email::Envelope deals with things happening at SMTP time, it deals with transmission via TLS/SSL/SSH/SomeOtherVoodoo. In otherwords, if it's been delivered via an encrypted means, then it's "secure".


SMTP Auth and SMTP TLS are extensions and are dealt with in RFC 2487 and RFC 2554. I'm aiming for RFC 2821 stuff in the main, and while "secure" would assume some of the region of RFC 2487, you can still transmit securely outside of SMTP Extension space.

While i'm at it, 2 new items need added, "MTA_MSG_ID" and "RECIEVED_DATE".

Will deal with them once I'm back in engerland.

ta!


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