Sebastian Nielsen wrote: > Another way, that is the preferred RFC way to do it, is to encapsulate the > mail in a new message/rfc822 container, and adding Fwd: to the original > subject of the outside container. > (This is how most mail clients "forward" a message)
I can't speak to most of the rest of your message, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong about "most mail clients" on this. If mail clients forwarded messages as attached message/rfc822 blobs by default, I wouldn't have so much trouble getting users/customers to report suspect/junk/unwanted email this way. Most desktop mail clients are set up to forward mail "inline" (ie, basically formatted as a reply, but with some additional header bits in the quoted section) by default. Outlook in particular seems to have been carefully designed to make this difficult to impossible. Even when you do manage to come close, you discover that the message you get out the other end is not the bit-for-bit original message you intended to forward. > To reply to a message, you would have to reply to the "inner" message. I'm curious which mail client you're using that lets you do this without a great deal of trouble. None of the common desktop clients I've met or used can do this - none can even save the attached message as a native message in an in-client local mail folder. -kgd
