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- Organization: Rice University, Networking & Computing Systems
- Message-ID: <930127.231120.CST.SCHAFER@ricevm1.rice.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:11:20 CST
- Sender: RiceMail discussion list <MAILBOOK@RICEVM1.BITNET>
- From: "Richard A. Schafer" <SCHAFER@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: original "from" "to" question
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:24:00 EST from <JCLUTCHE@PSUHMC>
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- John, although your question says reply, what your original correspondent
- is referring to is only relevant to forwarding.
-
- Many (most?) UNIX mail agents forward mail by packaging the original
- mail file (headers and all) as the body of a completely new message.
- RiceMail took an equally valid tack, using Resent- headers added to
- the original header, which offers the ability to reply to both the
- original sender and the forwarder with a Reply All. The original Berkeley
- mail program never generated Resent headers, so some (many?) completely
- ignore them, something I found out well after the RiceMail method was
- implemented.
-
- RFC822 was explicitly ambiguous about how forwarding should be handled,
- and both methods are equally valid and useful at times. At the moment,
- the only way to do the other method is to manually copy the message
- into a temporary file and then GET it into a new message you compose.
-
- Richard
-