jerry@ora.ora.com (Jerry Peek) (05/15/91)
When I re-send (forward) mail, I use the MH "dist" command that adds RFC822 addressing info like "Resent-to: xxx". It routes the message to the new recipient without adding a completely separate header. That's really handy. I've thought I could add things like this to the header (MH makes it easy): Resent-note: Joe, please get back to me about this But Dan Heller pointed out that "Resent-note" isn't anywhere in RFC822... he's right. The Nutshell Handbook I wrote about MH mentions it, oops. How did Resent-note get started? (I probably got the idea off USENET years ago and never checked it in RFC822.) Is it quasi-legal anywhere? Thanks. --Jerry Peek, jerry@ora.com or uunet!ora!jerry
gildea@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Stephen Gildea) (05/16/91)
I've thought I could add things like this to the header (MH makes it easy):
Resent-note: Joe, please get back to me about this
But Dan Heller pointed out that "Resent-note" isn't anywhere in RFC822...
he's right. The Nutshell Handbook I wrote about MH mentions it, oops.
However, the "Comments:" header field is in RFC-822, and therefore
"Resent-Comments:" is the correct field to use in a redistributed
message. Zmail has been using "Resent-Comments:" for years.
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