Andrew Hobson (andrew.hobson@cbeyond.net)
23 Oct 2001 17:29:16 -0400
Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> writes:
> to me it seems silly to expect a standards body to solve a problem which
> is caused by a deliberately standards-violating mail reader.
> in other words, this seems like the wrong place to try to solve the
> problem.
I haven't examined the various standards carefully, but which standard
specifies MUA behavior for forwarding email? I'm unware of one.
> as for a technical solution, maybe if receivers automatically
> bounced mail that didn't have proper content-type labels that would
> solve the problem.
While that would be nice in theory, I'm afraid I'm looking for a more
pragmatic solution.
For example, mutt 1.2.5i doesn't send the Content-Type by default when
forwarding a message. Should we bounce all messages from it, too?
Drew
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