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how to merge obs-id-{left,right} into a new msg-id on reply?

2001-09-09 14:12:50

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Hi! 
 
Since I'm new on this low-volume mailing list, let me introduce myself 
first: My name is Marc Mutz and I am a student of Physics at Bielefeld 
University, Germany. Till lately I hacked a bit at the Linux kernel's 
cryptoapi support (www.kerneli.org) and have written the corresponding 
HOWTO (Encryptionhowto.sf.net). I'm currently working on a new core for 
the message handling of KMail, the KDE mail reader (www.kde.org). 
 
Here's my problem with RFC 2822: 
I've run into the question whether to follow the rule: 
 
1. (e.g.) copy the contents of parent's "Message-ID", "In-Reply-To" and  
"References" to the child's "References" (and similar) 
- - -or- 
2. obs-* MUST not be generated by conformant mailers. 
 
Suppose I reply to a message whose Message-ID field has a left id that  
conforms to obs-left-id, but not left-id. How should I copy the msg-id  
then? Strip the non-comforming parts and risk to break older mailers'  
threading or copy everything from the "<" through to the ">" verbatim  
from the parent, risking to thus create a message in violation of  
rfc2822? 
 
Thanks, 
Marc 
 
- --  
"The problem with today's Internet is that it's dumb, boring and 
isolated," says Colony [CEO and chairman of Forrester Research]. 
Perhaps he and many like him are missing the real point: is it really 
the Internet, or is it users like himself that are dumb, boring and 
isolated?  -- John Horvath: "Internet X", Telepolis 2001/08/14 (#9309) 
 
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