On Tue, 20 May 2008, Ned Freed wrote: > > > There are likely to be cases within a domain where a client wants to > > > get his address "signed" with BATV but where you don't want to hand > > > out the shared secret (or private key for that matter) to the > > > client. As such, a missing component here is a on-wire way to ask > > > some agent to form this signing operation. The obvious place to have > > > this is as an SMTP eubmit extension, although of course other > > > approaches are possible. > > > The usual approach would be to make this implicit by configuring the > > client to use a submission server that adds the tag. I'm not sure why > > you'd need or want any explicit signalling. > > That assumes that the only time such an address is needed the goal is > always to immediately submit the message for transport using the > submission server operated by client's administrative domain. That may > not be what I want to do with the message. Just as one example, the > client could be remote and could be constained to submit mail to some > other server.
If the client can't use its normal submission server then I don't see what use a message submission protocol extension would be :-) Since a BATV address is only useful during message transport I'm not sure what situations other then message submission you'd want to create one. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ BAILEY: SOUTHEAST 5 TO 7. ROUGH. OCCASIONAL RAIN. MODERATE OR GOOD.
