On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 17:27 -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > which effectively gives clients free reign to ignore all but subject= > and body=, although I think most honor at least in-reply-to= and > references=.
<rant> I don't know of any Internet services (except maybe Microsoft's implementation of HTTP/HTML) where the implementations play faster and looser with RFC-based standards than the protocols around email! The war against spam has spawned a great plethora of half-baked, RFC-stretching (or RFC-violating) behaviors in both clients and servers! It's a wonder to me that Internet email works _at all_ and it's a tribute to Crocker, Resnick and all the rest of the engineers who designed the services and wrote the RFCs that it has endured and continues to function despite this kind of rampant abuse. </rant> I do, of course have to recommend the least common denominator to list hosting customers, and hew to the dictates of Occam's Razor :-) Whatever solution is both simplest and most reliable is the appropriate one in this case. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works if you let it" FMP Computer Services | (The Roadie) 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com | ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
