Mail-Followup-To (was: mode-line tooltips for "[" and "]" in recursive-edit)

[Reiner Steib]

On Fri, Mar 21 2008, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Dan Nicolaescu writes:
>
>  > Your mailer does not respect the Mail-Followup-To header then...
>
> No, and there's no standard saying a *mailer* should.  That's not a
> Mail header, it's a News header, intended to redirect traffic from
> Usenet to mail.  

Mail-Followup-To is for mail messages.  See
e.g. <http://cr.yp.to/proto/replyto.html>

> Granted, it would be a nice feature if the proponents could get their
> collective act together and get an RFC out the door, 

Agreed.

> but with no standard, what is an implementer supposed to do?  The
> Internet standards themselves say pre-RFC headers should only be
> used by parties who have agreed to do so ... and that apparently
> doesn't apply to Drew.

Bye, Reiner.
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