jlowry@bbn.COM (John Lowry) (08/29/90)
The implementation of '84 X400 I have does not support Forwarded IPM's.
I would like to know if any implementations that support FIPM's and in
anticipation of positive responses, have some questions:
1) Is there a limit (standard or practical) on the level of nesting
that can appear within FIPM's ?
2) Is there a common or accepted solution as to how a user indicates
to the UA that "X" is to be forwarded, or that "Y" is to be a FIPM
within "X" which is to be a FIPM in the message I am preparing for
submission ? Is there an assumption that "X" and "Y" are already
encoded ? How does one specify (or save) the delivery Time and
the DeliveryInformation to the UA ?
3) Upon delivery, is there a common or accepted solution for the UA to
notify the reader that "Y" is a FIPM of "X" which is a FIPM of the
message just received ? How does the UA inform the reader of the
delivery Time and DeliveryInformation of each FIPM ?
Does anyone have an example of 2) or 3) which they would be so kind
as to describe to me ?
John Lowrykhiem@hpinddm.cup.hp.COM (Khiem Ho) (08/29/90)
> The implementation of '84 X400 I have does not support Forwarded IPM's. > 1) Is there a limit (standard or practical) on the level of nesting > that can appear within FIPM's ? The recommended max level of nesting for Forwarded IPM is eight, per NIST Stable Agreements 12/88. I have seldom seen more than two (mostly because some systems will forward as text body part: guarenteed to be accepted by all). > 2) Is there a common or accepted solution as to how a user indicates > to the UA that "X" is to be forwarded, or that "Y" is to be a FIPM > within "X" which is to be a FIPM in the message I am preparing for > submission ? Is there an assumption that "X" and "Y" are already > encoded ? How does one specify (or save) the delivery Time and > the DeliveryInformation to the UA ? Some systems have a "forward" command, and either include the forwarded message as a text bodypart with available delivery info, or make a FIPM out of it. The deliveryTime, etc, is normally presented to the user as well (eg, SMTP header in mailx) so it's automatically included in the FIPM. > 3) Upon delivery, is there a common or accepted solution for the UA to > notify the reader that "Y" is a FIPM of "X" which is a FIPM of the > message just received ? How does the UA inform the reader of the > delivery Time and DeliveryInformation of each FIPM ? > I normally only see a single forwarded message, so all it says is "forwarded message". Khiem Ho Hewlett Packard