Re: Interaction between "editheader" and "redirect"

[Aaron Stone <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 10:12 +0000, Alexey Melnikov wrote:

[snip]
>    With the exception of the special handling of "redirect" and
>    "Received" header fields described above, all other actions that
>    store or send the message MUST do so with the current set of
>    header fields.

I figure that 'current' is defined as 'the set of headers as modified by
the editheader commands at this point in the script' but I had to think
about it for a moment. Could we dumb it down a notch to make the meaning
of 'current' more explicit?

> Additional paragraph in section 7 (Security Considerations):
> 
>    While this specification overrides the requirement that redirected
>    messages have more Received header fields than the message as
                        ^       ^ add double quotes to be consistent?
>    received, doing so removes an important mechanisms for detecting
                                                      ^ zap the 's'
>    loops and therefore should not be permitted by implementations
>    without due consideration, such as requiring administrative
                              ^ end the sentence here?
>    action to enable it.
> 

Aaron