Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ulysses!burl!hou3c!ROODE@SRI-NIC.ARPA From: ROODE@SRI-NIC.ARPA (David Roode) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: envelope information Message-ID: <308@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 06:31:03 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.308 Posted: Mon Feb 20 06:31:03 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Feb-84 04:51:11 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 17 Location: EJ286 Phone: (415) 859-2774 I sometimes wish the so-called envelope information on an SMTP transaction coming into my host were retained once the message was delivered to its appropriate mailbox. The motivation is that there are multiple names by which my mailbox may be refered to. Sometimes it would be useful to be able to identify which was used for a particular message, but that information is not listed in the standard headers. This would be the case for example when an alias had been placed on a mailing list at another site. The complete distribution is not shown in the message body because it is too long. I mention this because some people seem to feel that the user wishes to be saved from ever seeing the envelope, which is currently generally only partially available (in the form of the return path). I contend that full retention of envelope information is necessary for the user agent to function fully. -------