Re: [OT] Gmail & my replies to this list
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:34:31 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 02/23/2009 07:48 PM, Ken Teague wrote:
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> Wouldn't that only be relevant to the Web Interface?
> >
> > I forgot to mention that I'm seeing this issue while using Thunderterd
> > connecting to Gmail via IMAP.
>
> I could tell, because the Mnenhy plugin allows extra "stuff" to be
> added to the email header display, and I chose to add User-Agent and
> X-Spam-Status.
You *are* aware that while neither User-Agent nor X-Mailer is part of a
standard, X-Mailer is much more common? X-Mailer makes it into RFC
2076, albeit as non-standard, while User-Agent doesn't; it's apparently
a pretty new-fangled thing cooked up by browser based emailers, or
perhaps derived from newsgroups:
http://mailformat.dan.info/headers/other.html
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2076
http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=55425
http://gnus.org/manual/message_37.html
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