In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Seth Spitzer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kousik Nandy wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > If we have pref("mailnews.headers.showUserAgent",true)
> > then we get to see the User-Agent in the headers. Now, there are
> > several mail clients (except our Mozilla, mutt to name a few)
> > use X-Mailer to identify themselves. Can't this happen that when
> > showUserAgent is true, then mozilla shows User-Agent or X-Mailer
> > whichever is available?
>
> not a bad idea.
>
> log a bug and cc mscott.
>
> for some history, mscott implemented that to see who was using Mozilla
> mail-news and who wasn't. When mozilla was just a pup, mscott was the
> first person to ditch 4.x and only use mozilla. When we'd get internal
> mail from people on the mozilla team not using mozilla, we'd give them
> grief. (still do.)
X-Mailer (and X-Newsreader) are deprecated in favour of using
User-Agent everywhere. So I would discourage use of X-Mailer
if you can.
Simon
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