Re: Change in rmail-reply

[Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Richard M Stallman wrote:
>     Resent-To: shouldn't be set in such a case; that's forwarding, and
>     should end up with entirely new From/To headers.
> 
> You seem to assume a distinction between "forwarding" and "resending".

I'm not assuming it; RFC 2822 makes the distinction.

> Would you please explain it?

The distinction is the difference between "I'd like you to see this
mail" and "this mail was misdirected to me". [If you've used mutt,
it's the difference between forward and bounce.]

>     Resent-To: fields are only there to indicate when a message has
>     been reinserted into the mail delivery chain by someone.
> 
> When you resend John Doe's message to me, doesn't that mean it has
> been "reinserted into the mail delivery chain" by you? I seems that
> way to me.

A message which has From: of the new sender and To: of the new
recipient is reinserted when you forward.


Don Armstrong

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