Charles Eliot (charle@Exchange.Microsoft.com)
Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:08:57 -0700
You wrote:
NOTE: We could choose the default value for Content-Notification to
be IGNORE. This would make VPIMv2 automatically compliant with this
document, as VPIMv2 has provision to silently delete undeliverable
parts. However, VPIMv2 systems should not be receiving arbitrary e-
mail from the Internet. If they do, they should be compliant with
this series of documents. By defaulting to NOTIFY, this draft is
compliant with the rest of the Internet infrastructure.
I disagree with the assertion that VPIM-2 systems should not be
"receiving arbitrary e-mail from the Internet". For example, Microsoft
Exchange 2000 can act as a VPIM-2 server, receiving email messages of
all types from the Internet and sorting out which are VPIM-2 messages.
The identification of VPIM-2 messages is not difficult - it is after all
a well-defined MIME profile. More to the point, I don't remember
anything in the VPIM-2 RFCs that precludes this behaviour, or even
suggests that it is undesirable.
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