On 9 Jun 2012, at 8:16, Benny Kj?r Nielsen wrote: > First, I would like to make sure we use the same terminology. The term > used for the above should be ?resending?.
Fair enough -- many clients use the term "bounce", though (like Mutt). > Bouncing is what is done by SMTP servers when they reject a message, > for example, when a user does not exist, and just to be clear: > Bouncing is never going to be a feature in MailMate. Sure. Don't have any use for that anyways (-: > ?Resending? is described in [RFC 5322][1]. It is required that > headers are added to the message which clearly shows that it has been > resent. Most email clients should show these headers, but this is > where it gets embarrassing: MailMate does not show these headers (I > really should fix that). Even if you view the raw source/extended headers? (alt+cmd+u) > I don't have a strong opinion against implementing resending as > described in the RFC, but most users requesting it have also asked to > be able to edit the message as part of resending (apparently supported > by other email clients). I don't like that except if MailMate forces > the user to only be able to prefix the message with a plain text > comment (both the resend-headers and any prefixed text breaks the > unique email aspect of the `Message-ID` header). Personally I don't have the need to edit the email before resending it. If I wanted to add comments, I would use normal forward. -- Joachim