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Re: Is Accept-language an email header field?

2004-04-08 02:13:32

At 07.43 -0400 04-04-07, Keith Moore wrote:
"Accept-language wasn't designed for email, but has been found to be useful
as input into the generation of automatic replies.  It should apply to the
SMTP MAIL FROM or Return-Path address rather than some other address."

That sounds reasonable. Because Accept-Language will mostly
be used to control automatically generated responses, and
those should not be sent to all the members of a mailing
list. For one-to-one messages, the MAIL FROM and the From
mailbox is usually identical.
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Jacob Palme <jpalme(_at_)dsv(_dot_)su(_dot_)se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
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