On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 12:02:10PM +0100, Colm Buckley wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight <
>michele at blacknight.ie> wrote:
>> >
> > From recollection there was a section about the sender source ie. where the
> > mail came from . This includes other SMTP servers etc., right back to the
> > actual person's desktop.
>>> And when email is sent through GMail from an SMTP client, all of these
> headers are preserved. The question remains; what information should be
> captured when the *webmail* interface is used - should we "pretend" that
> it's SMTP and make up a "Received" header for the HTTP client? That strikes
> me as violating the principle of least surprise, as well as twisting the
> purpose of the header - and I don't like the way Yahoo! does it per your
> example below. I still haven't seen a reference to an RFC which we're
> "flouting" with GMail.
>> In my opinion, the purpose of the Received: headers is clearly to track the
> mail's progress by SMTP; I really don't think it's good practise to
> arbitrarily redefine it to include webmail receipt. RFC2821 is a bit
> unclear on the subject, referring only to "mail originating in other
> environments", but I certainly don't see a strong recommendation in any of
> the obvious RFCs to use it for webmail.
>> Of course, it may be that "GMail is flouting RFCs" is simply hyperbole, and
> what you intended to say was "GMail's notion of best practise differs from
> my own"; would that be correct?
>> If you were handling mail for thousands of users and those users were being
> > spammed constantly from one source what would you do?
>>> Move to an email hosting provider like GMail...
>Maybe it's just me, but I'd be a bit nervous about using a service that google
don't even have the confidence in to take the "Beta" label off for anything
massively important.
> Colm
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