From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Chetan Pandya <pandyacus@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change in rmail-reply
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:16:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4983C273.4060201@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <597051.6409.qm@web83201.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-31 3:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-26 16:30 Change in rmail-reply Richard M Stallman
2009-01-26 17:39 ` Glenn Morris
2009-01-27 6:10 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-27 6:44 ` Don Armstrong
2009-01-27 18:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-27 22:58 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-27 23:22 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-01-29 14:32 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-29 15:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-01-29 16:36 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-01-30 7:25 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-30 8:04 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-01-30 23:05 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-31 0:50 ` Chetan Pandya
2009-01-31 1:01 ` Chetan Pandya
2009-01-31 3:16 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2009-01-31 3:53 ` Chetan Pandya
2009-01-31 6:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-01-31 9:52 ` Chetan Pandya
2009-02-01 6:30 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-31 3:18 ` Jason Rumney
2009-01-31 3:31 ` Jason Rumney
2009-02-01 6:30 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-31 4:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-01-27 23:35 ` Don Armstrong
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