Re: [2822upd] Resent-* MUSTard

Bruce Lilly <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Organization Bruce Lilly
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2007-05-02, Pete Resnick wrote:

> It is perfectly 
> reasonable to resend post-delivery. In that case, you'll have 
> Resent-* fields prepended to the message which may already have a 
> Return-Path. It will get a new Return-Path when it is delivered to 
                  will -> may (Return-Path is optional per *822 (and
as previously noted, resending might not use SMTP))
> the mailbox in the Resent-To, and that will be the MAIL FROM of the 
> resender.
> 
> Maybe there's an argument for removing a Return-Path before 
> prepending the Resent-* fields, but that's a different discussion.

Sounds reasonable.  Maybe resending and the Resent- fields could be
moved to a separate document, which could more fully discuss the
issues relevant to resending (which transcends the message format per se).
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