On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 12:29 AM Derek Martin <inva...@pizzashack.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 05:31:28PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > Thread comment: It's OK to be unaware of the usefulness of RFC features, > > but it does seem odd to pretend that they're not useful just because > > it's only others who need them. > > I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this, but for the sake of > clarity about RFC features, here's what RFC 2822 says on the matter > (3.6.3, paragraph 6): > > When a message is a reply to another message, the mailboxes of the > authors of the original message (the mailboxes in the "From:" > field) or mailboxes specified in the "Reply-To:" field (if it > exists) MAY appear in the "To:" field of the reply since these > would normally be the primary recipients of the reply. If a reply > is sent to a message that has destination fields, it is often > desirable to send a copy of the reply to all of the recipients of > the message, in addition to the author. When such a reply is > formed, addresses in the "To:" and "Cc:" fields of the original > message MAY appear in the "Cc:" field of the reply, since these are > normally secondary recipients of the reply. > > It recomments Mutt's current behavior
I disagree on "recommends". Actually "may", as modal verb, is used to express *possibility* or used to ask or give *permission* (or is used to make a *suggestion* or suggest a *possibility* in a polite way): https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/may Either way, in the RFC it expresses an option, an acceptable alternate behavior to the (implicit, because it's obvious) behavior, which is to preserve the distinction between Cc: and To:. Distinction which, BTW, the same RFC states beyond doubt (see the relevant quote in my previous message in thread). So, that "MAY" above just allows the MUA to *optionally* blur the original assignment of recipients between To: and Cc:. Not to enforce a reassignment instead of the normal behaviour. Beyond this, the fact that someone *should* change mutt is a completely different discussion. mutt is free as in "beer" and as in "chage it yourself", and I completely respect that. Mihai P.S. FWIW, Thunderbird changed to preserve original assignment some 5-6 years ago.