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has caused the Debian Bug report #202908,
regarding X-Debbugs-Cc: might work harder to prune headers
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author(s) Pine Bugs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.

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Hello.

A lot of time ago (I apologize for taking so long to process this report),
Ross Boylan sent a bug against bugs.debian.org, but in the end, it happened
to be more a bug in the way pine handles Resent-* headers.

I'll try to summarize:

Colin Watson points out that RFC 2822 says:

   Note: When replying to a resent message, replies behave just as they
   would with any other message, using the original "From:",
   "Reply-To:", "Message-ID:", and other fields.  The resent fields are
   only informational and MUST NOT be used in the normal processing of
   replies.

However pine sometimes uses the address in the Resent-To field as well.

Example: If I reply to this message:

=============================
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Some subject

Some body.
=============================

pine asks "Include original message in Reply?" and then "Reply to all
recipients?". If the answer to the second question is "yes", then pine
will compose a message like this:

To      : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc      : [EMAIL PROTECTED],
          [EMAIL PROTECTED]

which RFC 2822 says it must not happen.

So, to summarize: Adding [EMAIL PROTECTED] if one answer "yes" to the
question "Reply to all recipients?" seems to be fine, but adding
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is not.

Tested with pine 4.64.

Thanks.

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