Re: QMQP, QSBMF, RFC-1894 and MIME (was: QMQP may eat your mail andits bounces)

[Pavel Kankovsky]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Henning Brauer wrote:

> What's that for a benchmark?
> "A Ferrari isn't faster then a VW Polo. I tested them in New York, rush
> hour, they were equally fast". Huh?

It is a perfectly legal benchmark demonstrating you would waste your money
buying Ferrari instead of VW Polo in order to drive faster in NY.


On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> Bounces have empty envelope sender addresses. That is the only
> characteristic that should be used to identify them.

You are both right and wrong. You are right because bounces have empty
envelope senders aka return paths...or are supposed to have according
to the RFCs. You are wrong because the *format* of bounces should be
recognizable even after manipulation that do not preserve envelope
senders--imagine a user forwarding a bounce to his/her postmaster.


--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."