From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change in rmail-reply Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:22:36 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20090128.002236.153267880.hanche@math.ntnu.no> References: <20090127064421.GZ4175@volo.donarmstrong.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233098576 25074 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2009 23:22:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:22:56 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 28 00:24:09 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 1LRxHs-0002N4-9t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:24:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56492 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRxGa-0007Sn-09 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:22:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRxGV-0007Q1-K7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:22:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRxGT-0007NP-Oy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:22:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59857 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRxGT-0007NB-JC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:22:41 -0500 Original-Received: from abel.math.ntnu.no ([129.241.15.50]:55177) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRxGT-0001OT-4H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:22:41 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 23980 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2009 23:22:38 -0000 Original-Received: from gauss.math.ntnu.no (HELO localhost) (hanche@129.241.15.102) by abel.math.ntnu.no with ESMTPA; 27 Jan 2009 23:22:38 -0000 In-Reply-To: X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1.53 on Emacs 23.0.60 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:108310 Archived-At: + Richard M Stallman : > > The RFC is clear, but it seems to be clearly wrong. If John Doe > > sends a message to you, and you resend it to me, and I do "reply to > > all", it seems clear that my reply should by default go to you. > > 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". > Would you please explain it? > > 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. Technically yes, but RFC2822 explains it thus: Note: Reintroducing a message into the transport system and using resent fields is a different operation from "forwarding". "Forwarding" has two meanings: One sense of forwarding is that a mail reading program can be told by a user to forward a copy of a message to another person, making the forwarded message the body of the new message. A forwarded message in this sense does not appear to have come from the original sender, but is an entirely new message from the forwarder of the message. On the other hand, forwarding is also used to mean when a mail transport program gets a message and forwards it on to a different destination for final delivery. Resent header fields are not intended for use with either type of forwarding. - Harald