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Re: Change in rmail-reply
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Don Armstrong |
Subject: |
Re: Change in rmail-reply |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:35:28 -0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Richard M Stallman wrote:
> Resent-To: shouldn't be set in such a case; that's forwarding, and
> should end up with entirely new From/To headers.
>
> You seem to assume a distinction between "forwarding" and "resending".
I'm not assuming it; RFC 2822 makes the distinction.
> Would you please explain it?
The distinction is the difference between "I'd like you to see this
mail" and "this mail was misdirected to me". [If you've used mutt,
it's the difference between forward and bounce.]
> Resent-To: fields are only there to indicate when a message has
> been reinserted into the mail delivery chain by someone.
>
> When you resend John Doe's message to me, doesn't that mean it has
> been "reinserted into the mail delivery chain" by you? I seems that
> way to me.
A message which has From: of the new sender and To: of the new
recipient is reinserted when you forward.
Don Armstrong
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- Re: Change in rmail-reply, (continued)
- Re: Change in rmail-reply, Richard M Stallman, 2009/01/30
- Re: Change in rmail-reply, Chetan Pandya, 2009/01/30
- Re: Change in rmail-reply, Chetan Pandya, 2009/01/30
- Re: Change in rmail-reply, Jason Rumney, 2009/01/30
- Re: Change in rmail-reply, Chetan Pandya, 2009/01/30
- Re: Change in rmail-reply, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/01/31
- Re: Change in rmail-reply, Chetan Pandya, 2009/01/31
- Re: Change in rmail-reply, Jason Rumney, 2009/01/30
- Re: Change in rmail-reply, Jason Rumney, 2009/01/30
- Re: Change in rmail-reply, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/01/30
- Re: Change in rmail-reply,
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