On 4/2/04 at 6:22 PM -0800, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
What is the defined, actual, use of resent?
I'll leave reading section 3.6.6 of RFC 2822 to you all, but the
short answer is:
When a user wants to re-send a message, leaving all of the original
headers in-tact but sending it to someone else, Resent-* fields are
prepended to the message to indicate where it came from. This is
often referred to as the "Bounce to another user" or "Redirect"
feature in MUAs. It results in the recipient getting a message such
that when they reply, the reply goes back to the original author, not
the re-sender.
(Of course, in a resent message, the MAIL FROM is the resender.)
pr
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