On 2006-03-22 08:12:17 +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Mutt doesn't filter control characters, in particular the ^J and ^M, > > from headers, which can lead to unwanted behavior; in particular when > > replying, the reply can be sent to a 3rd address given in the Subject > > (and the user won't probably notice it). More details are given here: > > It seems to me that this problem only exists when edit_headers is set.
When replying, yes. When viewing a message, one can see an additional (fake) header line, though. This may give wrong information to the user (if he closely looks at the header). Not sure whether this is really important, but one never knows... > However, with this option set the user sees the receipients of the > mail and can edit the header fields. if he looks at the header. One doesn't necessarily do it all the time. When I got caught by this bug, it took me some time to find out that the headers were corrupted when I sent the mail; I knew it just because I received a corrupted mail back (I put myself in the Bcc) and tried to see where the problem came from. > In that, it is comparable to specifying 'Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" or using the famous Mail-Followup-To: header. No, because when I reply, I get questions about "To:", "Subject:" and "Cc:" in the status line, so that I can see who I'm replying to at the time. But the "Cc:" header due to the bug is added *after* these questions. And again, one doesn't necessarily look closely at the headers in the Compose menu since they shouldn't have changed. Regards, -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
