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Re: Bogus reply-to



On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:29:55AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Brian Nelson wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:22:02PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> > 
> >># Mail-copies-to: never
> >># Mail-followup-to: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> >>
> >>Aren't these the vaunted headers?  And yet, I get cc'd, or directly
> >>emailed, all the time.  Either people's clients or broken, or they are.
> >>Either way, the headers don't work.  Not reliably.
> >>   
> >
> >Unfortunately, those headers are not specified in the relevant RFCs and
> >are not in wide use outside of Linux and other highly technical mailing
> >lists.  Support for MFT and MCT headers is strictly optional, so many
> >mail client authors/vendors simply choose not to support them.
> 
> If they're not blessed by RFC then they should be X-Mail-copies-to: etc. 
> All permissible headers are enumerated by RFC, and if they're not in the 
> list they are explicitly disallowed.

I believe it was proposed in an RFC and rejected.  I guess people got
annoyed and started using it anyway.

-- 
You win again, gravity!



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