From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Armstrong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change in rmail-reply Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:35:28 -0800 Message-ID: <20090127233528.GZ25486@rzlab.ucr.edu> References: <20090127064421.GZ4175@volo.donarmstrong.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233099348 27461 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2009 23:35:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:35:48 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 28 00:37:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LRxUI-0006OX-PH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:36:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45784 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRxT0-0003rx-IC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:35:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRxSw-0003rL-Am for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:35:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRxSv-0003qi-5G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:35:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55328 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRxSu-0003qW-Ug for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:35:32 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:46526) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRxSu-0002nQ-DK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:35:32 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (archimedes.ucr.edu [138.23.92.79]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with SMTP id n0RNZSku014005 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:35:29 -0800 Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 1291 invoked by uid 1000); Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:35:28 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:108311 Archived-At: 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 -- America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic bi-polar stand-up comedian. Anything but a somber and tedious nation of socially responsible centurions. -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p122 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu