On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 01:27:40PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Du, 19 apr 20, 11:41:52, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 12:21:02PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > >>> Apparently the "official" name (to be confirmed) is "remailing" and > >>> it involves resending the message (mostly untouched) to another > >>> address. > >> > >> Ah, I see. I was betting on "forwarding", but later it occurred to me > >> that this would wrap the original message (probably without headers > >> :-( into a part of a multi-part MIME. Drats. Probably you are right. > > > As far as I know "forwarding as attachment" does not affect the > > original message (though this may depend on the client), however it is > > *not* appropriate for this particular use-case. I'm guessing because > > it would be difficult to distinguish the forwarded message from other > > (legitimate) mime parts. > > No, because wrapped messages are of "Content-Type: message/rfc822". If > your wrap multiple messages, all are contained in "Content-Type: > multipart/digest", so they are easily distinguishable from other > attachments. So you suggest that forwarding a message (as message/rfc822 attachment) to report-listspam@l.d.o would be the right thing to do with Thunderbird? Makes kind of sense. Perhaps Someone (TM) asks the listmasters (I'd do, but I prefer to get some consensus here before. Cheers -- t
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