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Re: mailing lists are delivery end-points

2004-12-16 09:10:44

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Douglas Otis wrote:

These resent headers could be seen as optional and happen to be
unlimited in number. Resent-Sender/Resent-From is created when the
entity identified in this field resends a message with the intent of the
message appearing to be unchanged.

Resent fields prepends to a message reintroduced, where this set of
fields are added each time this is done.

You're assuming 2822 semantics here, but in my experience most
implementations follow 822 semantics for Resent-*. The implications of
this are that ordering of Resent-* does not generally follow the 2822
prepend rule, and software is likely to be confused by the presence of
more than one Resent-* set.

There's a general problem in 2822 that although it re-defines Resent-*
as being part of the trace fields, it doesn't allow for general extension
of trace fields despite the fact that this is a common requirement (e.g.
Delivered-To: headers in alias-forwarding).

Tony.
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