Bron Gondwana <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've seen the argument of "what if you want to forward a copy on to > someone else for inspection, whatever" - without forming a new copy > of the message. That's actually really hard to do in the current > universe, because the headers will make it look extra spammy.
Use the Resent-* headers. (Pine/Alpine gets this right, though it uses 822 semantics rather than the better 2822 semantics.) > All that's really missing is a way to form a "new" message from an "old" > message without necessarily downloading everything first - but that's > what the Lemonade CATENATE stuff was for. Build a new message, > potentially including the old one as a message/rfc822 attachment, and > then send that. message/rfc822 is also good. IMO every message that is forwarded or top-post replied should use message/rfc822 attachments rather than doing some fucked up redaction of the original message. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Viking, North Utsire: Westerly or southwesterly 6 to gale 8, occasionally severe gale 9 at first, veering northwesterly 4 or 5 later. Rough or very rough. Rain or squally showers. Good, occasionally poor. _______________________________________________ imap5 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/imap5
