From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Forward option for Mail Message-ID: <20031216161625.A13462@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <200312161347.hBGDlgl14939@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200312161347.hBGDlgl14939@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl>; from Axel Belinfante on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:47:42PM +0100 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:16:25 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a60ad4b4-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:47:42PM +0100, Axel Belinfante wrote: > > In (e.g.) mh there is a separate command to do that: > redist(ribute), which uses Resent-* headers. Elm and Mutt use "bounce" and it's a very nifty feature. But forwarding then is a case of Mime-enclosing (or otherwise isolating) the original message in a bigger scope where the forwarder can add her comments. I have had no cause to disagree with such conventions and in fact find acme/mail lacking in that department (no criticism intended, I plan to put my programming skill to the test in that direction once I've licked the ASN.1/S/MIME/PEM/X.509/LDAP/Remote Desktop/everything OSI project I'm losing my sanity on right now :-) ++L