On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Charles Gregory wrote:
> HEY! Where do we go to invent new STANDARDS for Mail Transports?
> I think it's bad enough that we often end up bouncing mail to an innocent
> third party, but when the sender does not exist, and it gets bounced back
> to us, that is even *more* of a waste. So I was wondering if we could put
> together a 'movement' to insert a new 'standard' header, call it
> "X-BOUNCES: No" or something like that, so that any mail transport that
> sees that header knows that it should *not* bounce the mail? Even if not
> everyone checks for it, at least when the bounce comes back, we can check
> for it ourselves and trashcan the bounced bounce..... :-)
Why try to invent new standards when there's one for exactly this
situation that has been around for over 20 Years?
Read RFC-2821 section 6.1 for the modern version,
RFC-821 for the original (dated August 1982).
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