On 12 Apr 2023 22:15, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 10:04:42PM +0200, zithro wrote:So it seems that, despite (incomplete?) standards, each provider (in the whole mail chain, MUA, MTA, etc) "does what he wants" ?Why do you sound surprised? This is how everything works. Everything.
I tend to agree AND disagree about "everything" ^^ [Reminds me of the discussion about categorization which happened on this ML a few days ago, about perl iirc ; ) ] RFCs are there for having a common ground, right ?If I'm not wrong, RFC compliance may even be required in some areas (via contracts).
Are you referring to "extending standards w/o making it a standard" (read: intellectual property and market advantage) ? Or something else ? Because now we're at it, I am trying to understand the caveats of the whole mail system stuff. Setting it up for a local/personal network was easy, but it's another beast when getting public (IMHO). Like should I ignore all those non-standards stuff when setting it ? Or should I handle them in the config ?