On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Jacek Masiulaniec <jac...@dobremiasto.net> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 04:37:17PM -0700, Claus Assmann wrote: >> > smtpd currently does no content inspection. However, even the most >> > basic SMTP implementation needs to parse message content, eg. to >> > add missing domainpart to From:, add missing Date: or Message-Id: >> > or to strip Return-Path:. So, we need to come up with a solution >> > that will cater for all these cases, and possibly more. >> >> You need that only in an MSA, not in an MTA. My MTA package doesn't >> offer that either, that's why it uses some other software as MSA >> which adds all the required headers if they are missing (a decent >> MUA doesn't need any fixups, but you can't rely on that as there >> are obviously other programs that submit mail). > > Correct, my statement was too strong: MTA can do without inspection > but MSA must do it, and our current thinking is that smtpd will not > separate out MSA as another program. > > However, nothing is final yet - we are considering other options.
Ahh.. OK. I think I'm understanding this now. Thanks, --patrick
