Re: Change in rmail-reply

[Harald Hanche-Olsen]

+ Richard M Stallman <address@hidden>:

>     > 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