Re: [EAI] double angle brackets

[Shawn Steele <Shawn.Steele at microsoft.com>]

> (From: EAI for user 1, ASCII for user 2)
>
> This case would have a Reply-To with the EAI address, so the multiple 
>  From fields are not used.

I don't think you understood me correctly.  I'm saying if I wanted the mail to be "From: billg at microsoft.com, steveb at microsoft.com" when Bill had an EAI address and Steve did not, then it'd be confused with an EAI downgrade format.

I also don't see how Reply-To: helps.  If Reply-To: always has the EAI fallback path, then it can't be used normally.

> As part of the downgrade simplification, we are proposing to drop
> support for downgrade of forward pointing addresses such as To:, Cc:.If
> someone gives you an EAI address, the assumption is that their email
> system can receive EAI email.If their system cannot receive EAI email,
> it is a 'configuration' error on their end and they shouldn't be giving
> out an EAI address until they are ready to receive such mail.

If I send email from an EAI aware account to 10 other EAI aware users, then that's great.  (Like on a list like this).  If someone replies-all, everything works fine.

Now if I add one non-EAI aware user, unless To: & Cc: are fixed, then that person can't reply-all.  In fact I guess all the other addresses have to be dropped for downgrade (or the mail fails)  If they replied-all, they'd get me presumably because of From, but all the other users would fail.  I use Reply-All more than reply.  That's how I replied to this mail in fact.

I'm not sure how much good it does to "fix" from if the others can't be fixed as well.

-Shawn