From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change in rmail-reply Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:16:03 +0800 Message-ID: <4983C273.4060201@gnu.org> References: <87myd9cj98.fsf@xemacs.org> <28265.24804.qm@web83202.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <597051.6409.qm@web83201.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233371907 2707 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2009 03:18:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:18:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chetan Pandya Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 31 04:19:41 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 1LT6OQ-0004kE-7l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:19:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LT6N7-0005cR-Qo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:18:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LT6Le-0005DF-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:16:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LT6Lc-0005CO-HV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:16:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52642 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LT6Lc-0005CG-8d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:16:44 -0500 Original-Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.184]:56563) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LT6LZ-0006ax-Qy; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:16:42 -0500 Original-Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id u5so224011tia.10 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:16:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Z9gQI+4RPQ0tEwOukzY0TyQXMks31ZRgMCGjsgDZEv4=; b=qguedwRDS9qcPIjv09RzapYiKpoCbNehFGLW/Z4xdADqB1MJSeDEPEWtQdk2zjI6/j C7/kA3fAi0I8u0whonpfq6jez06Nzp0fO8DD3oLhi2DwfJzpnVQlkzQJrrmCguyXfnU2 uSYwv7TNCNfW8PznnwXSw4GtR+QpjKzObcVs0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=erO9/ZR/ddlHeyMvdqrixed0oOP0eLLw5yRB2Sa5ccq4hfy1kNiRqVUdXg2zY2kLzI 9hIS4OyGXrFsOLk3oKf37h6yj8cNXzoZHyJXmYJ+BeC5TC5eu8R+u67ahGQSeqi+9Bx1 eV5NOyzTwaXkiJ5NCx/ed0mmjhfT6nhcSx6c4= Original-Received: by 10.110.47.9 with SMTP id u9mr2065085tiu.44.1233371799385; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:16:39 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ?192.168.249.26? ([118.101.26.137]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i6sm2261314tid.36.2009.01.30.19.16.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:16:38 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) In-Reply-To: <597051.6409.qm@web83201.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:108437 Archived-At: 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.