>From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >Your MUA is "broken", "misconfigured" or (User is) "ignorand"
>>
>> >Your MUA doesn't set the "In-Reply-to" and/or "references"-Headers
>>
>> >Discussions with more than "a few" Mails (With a high percentage from you)
>> >are absolutly HARD to read because no thread-tree can be build.
>>
>> I am using the standard UNIX mail program and I see no reason why I should
>> change this.
>You want people to write emails to the gtar Authors to convince them to
>make gtar POSIX-compliant.
If they like me to take gatr for serious: yes!
>Conclusion:
>YOU have to write a complain to the authors of that programm, so that they
>will make it "compliant" to RECENT Email-Standards.
>(Or patch it yourself, implementing this feature should be TRIVIAL)
>Btw. You know that RFC-822 is "deprecated", RFC-2822 is now THE
>Email-Standard. (I don't KNOW it, but i think those headers are defined in
>RFC-2822)
>Conclusion:
>EMail-Programm violating RFC-2822 have to be FIXED.
>Maybe i should fetch RFC-2822 and look if you HAVE TO fix you MUA.
Right, you _should_ read RFC-2822!
If you did, you could have avoided this mail....
>From RFC-2822:
sender 0* 1 MUST occur with multi-
^^^^^
!!!!!
address from - see 3.6.2
....
message-id 0* 1 SHOULD be present - see
3.6.4
in-reply-to 0* 1 SHOULD occur in some
^^^^^
!!!!!
replies - see 3.6.4
BTW: RFC-2822 is from April 2001, so you cannot expect a program that
already follows in less then half a year.
I am quite sure that Solaris 9 (I get the beta in a few months) will
follow the rules of RFC-2822. There is also a high probability that
even the optional fields are filled in in case there is a common practice
to use them.
J�rg
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