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

2001-09-09 17:44:33

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?

I'd say the latter.  It's certainly incorrect to create a completely 
new message-id (correct or not) and say that you've replied to it.

Say you were replying to a message that had a newly-invalid From address
(valid under 822 and invalid under 2822). Would you create a new address
as the destination of the reply?  

Keith