John R Levine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Gee, someone admits that VERP is a good idea.
: This draft needs a lot of work. It has gratuitous language about the extra
: bandwidth that VERP requires, and hex encodes characters for no reason I can
: understand. But I suppose the idea of allowing the VERP expansion on another
: machine is OK.
My problem with it is the same problem I've always had: the
responsibility should be on the client smtp, not the server. How can
the client smtp know the server will encode the VERP correctly?
And, why should the server smtp dictate the form of VERPification?
What if the client smtp wants an arbitrary and unique cookie?
It would be better to send as many "return paths" as recipient
addresses, but only one message. This might end up looking like:
MAIL FROM/RCPT TO:<me-you-returned=example.com><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...
-harold
