Re: Change in rmail-reply

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

Chetan Pandya wrote:
> One thing I don't like about this command is the potential for misuse - unless this is one of the intended uses.
> The problem is that the recipient of the message may have no idea that the message is not really received 
> from what it claims to be, if the recipient MUA does not look at the resend headers.  This might look like 
> deception. Granted it is already possible to do it by other means, but the question is whether it should be 
> made easier to do so.
>   

If the intention is to deceive, then it is trivially easy to forge email 
headers, especially in an environment as configurable as Emacs. The 
resend command is very useful to a small minority of users who deal with 
mailing list moderation or catch-all mailboxes and want to forward mail 
in a way that keeps the original headers intact. The feature is provided 
by other mail clients, either as standard or as an optional extension, 
so its inclusion in rmail is not unique.