Adding `Delivered-To' to message-ignored-resent-headers (was: Changes to emacs/lisp/gnus/message.el, v)

Adding `Delivered-To' to message-ignored-resent-headers (was: Changes to emacs/lisp/gnus/message.el, v)

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, Mar 12 2008, Stefan Monnier on emacs-diffs:

> -(defcustom message-ignored-resent-headers "^Return-receipt\\|^X-Gnus\\|^Gnus-Warning:\\|^>?From "
> +(defcustom message-ignored-resent-headers
> +  ;; `Delivered-To' needs to be removed because some mailers use it to
> +  ;; detect loops, so if you resend a message to an address that ultimately
> +  ;; comes back to you (e.g. a mailing-list to which you subscribe, in which
> +  ;; case you may be removed from the list on the grounds that mail to you
> +  ;; bounced with a "mailing loop" error).
> +  "^Return-receipt\\|^X-Gnus\\|^Gnus-Warning:\\|^>?From \\|^Delivered-To:"

Shouldn't this change go to Emacs_22 (v5-10) as well?  Or can you
imagine any problems?

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Re: Adding `Delivered-To' to message-ignored-resent-headers

[Stefan Monnier]

>> -(defcustom message-ignored-resent-headers "^Return-receipt\\|^X-Gnus\\|^Gnus-Warning:\\|^>?From "
>> +(defcustom message-ignored-resent-headers
>> +  ;; `Delivered-To' needs to be removed because some mailers use it to
>> +  ;; detect loops, so if you resend a message to an address that ultimately
>> +  ;; comes back to you (e.g. a mailing-list to which you subscribe, in which
>> +  ;; case you may be removed from the list on the grounds that mail to you
>> +  ;; bounced with a "mailing loop" error).
>> +  "^Return-receipt\\|^X-Gnus\\|^Gnus-Warning:\\|^>?From \\|^Delivered-To:"

> Shouldn't this change go to Emacs_22 (v5-10) as well?  Or can you
> imagine any problems?

Could be.  Doesn't seem important enough, and I don't know if it's safe
enough either.  I just happened to bump into it, but since I'm the
first, it seems it's not that important.


        Stefan