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> which is no easy task Which is impossible; a number of people run their own email or use a small friend-run email server, and you can't possible discern the
by TheDong 9y ago
> which is no easy task
Which is impossible; a number of people run their own email or use a small friend-run email server, and you can't possible discern the delivery rules from the outside.
- ubernostrum 9y agonumber of people run their own Yes. A small number is a number. If we could go back in time and force every single implementer to follow every relevant RFC to utter perfection (and make sure all the RFCs were perfectly unambiguous), I'd be more sympathetic. But email is fucked. The sheer number of oddball things, hacks, workarounds, deviations and other bits of mess that implementers have engaged in over the years means the RFCs should be treated as at best a loose hopeful outline of how email might in theory work.