Re: Mail Cookies

Iljitsch van Beijnum <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:43:58 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ng
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11-feb-04, at 22:44, Hadmut Danisch wrote:

> Example:

> I send my customer a cookie, i.e. in a message I have a header
> entry like

>   set-cookie: *@danisch.de  valid until 2008  customer 12345

> Then (if the MUA supports and the customer agrees) any message from
> the customer to my domain, even new messages, would contain a cookie:
> header entry.

This is very similar to my idea of having mailable forms where some 
fields are automatically filled in.

I think something like this, either per-thread or per-recipient, could 
be incredible useful in any kind of machine2machine or human2machine 
interaction. And it could be part of a larger end-to-end option 
dissemination mechanism.