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Re: Resent-* (was: draft-ietf-marid-protocol-03)

2004-09-25 06:28:51
On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Frank Ellermann wrote:
Tony Finch wrote:

It depends very much on which MUA software you and your
correspondents use.

Oh, yes, that's always true, and some MUAs have serious
problems with MIME, or ignore Reply-To.

This is nothing to do with poor standards compliance. Just because most
MUAs do not implement the resend function, that does not mean that those
that do are broken.

Pine is very common here and its "bounce" function
implements message resending.

Bouncing MUAs, shudder.

Yes, the name they use for the function is fantastically badly chosen. It
is nothing to do with DSNs or other bounce messages.

Is that a pre-MIME MUA, or do you know why it doesn't use message/rfc822?

It has an extremely good MIME implementation and it does implement
message/rfc822 as part of its forwarding function. But we are talking
about resending not forwarding.

Tony.
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