[dev] Re: [cvs] commit: imp compose.php

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Thu Oct 17 17:23:32 PDT 2002


Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
> 
> | Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:
> |
> | >   Log:
> | >   When forwarding messages in an rfc822 digest, set each part's
> | > content-type
> | >   name parameter to "Fwd: [Subject line of message]".
> |
> | Is this RFC or the common behaviour of other clients? Just curious.
> 
> Neither (AFAIK).  There is no RFC for what to include in rfc822 headers.
> It's definitely not violating any RFC though (that I know of - I assume
> if
> there would be anything it would appear in RFC 2046).
> 
> And I have no idea what other mailers do (I don't even know if other
> mailers allow to do what IMP now does).  This was just something that

At least Outlook allow sort of multiple forwarding. You can include messages
with drag and drop.

> made
> it easier to read/comprehend the forwarded data.  It's nice to have the
> subject easily accessible for all forwarded parts (way better
> than "unnamed" :)).

In this case I'd personally prefer to put the pure subject into the
description as that's what appears also inside the rfc822 attachment.

Jan.

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