Subject: [EAI] From Downgrade

From: Shawn Steele <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:01:34 +0000

I just got back from vacation, so I haven't followed everything, but I'm a bit confused by some of the From downgrade discussion.

It seems to me that if an EAI-aware transmission knows about From: with any downgrade specification, eg From: <EAI <ASCII>>, that when it encounters a non-aware system, if it just replaces the EAI address(es) with the ASCII addresses, the message should succeed.  Mail lists, etc should all be able to subscribe the ASCII address, etc.

What is lost is for the EAI address to be resurrected, however since something in the connection obviously doesn't understand EAI, I'm not sure that matters.

So are we making this harder than it is?

-Shawn