On 8/1/17 2:11 AM, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> Jim,
> I would like to disagree:
>
>> On 1 Aug 2017, at 00:02, Jim Fenton <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Section 5.3, I don't think it's a good idea to define and require new
>> message header fields for this. This means that some of the
>> general-purpose libraries for sending email messages can't be used.
> Do you mean that a general purpose library is unable to add arbitrary header 
> fields? This doesn't seem to qualify as "general purpose".

"General purpose" was the wrong phrase. My suspicion was that
higher-level libraries for easily sending an email message from a
program wouldn't necessarily support adding arbitrary email header
fields. But I did a bit more research, and the ones I have found do
allow addition of arbitrary header fields.

>
>> A better approach IMO would be to suggest the use of separate email
>> addresses (e.g., [email protected] or [email protected] for
>> a service provider) in order to distinguish reports from other traffic.
> This is already possible.

Yes, and for this reason the requirement to add new message header
fields seems gratuitous. I expect reports will be separated by
destination address rather than using IMAP filters, the latter being
given as the motivation for the new header fields.

-Jim


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