[ On Friday, March 1, 2002 at 12:48:53 (-0500), Dave C. wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] Proper autoresponder behavior
>
> Actually its a not a nit.. Forwarding and "Bouncing" are two different
> concepts.
Yeah, but when we're talking about "resent-*" headers we can only be
talking about one thing -- messages sent with "resent-*" headers. I
don't care what you or any given MUA calls the mechanism used to create
them -- it's totally irrelevant to the discussion.
> MUA's should _not_ generate autoresponses, ever. Anything that generates
> an autoreponse is an MTA.
You're very wrong. MTAs only transport messages between MUAs. MUAs
handle messages on behalf of _users_. Agents are often considered to be
automated things and sometimes they operate completely and totally
automatically once they've been configured. One such example is the
"vacation" program. However when they are simple mail readers they are
usually under the immediate control of users. However as anyone
familiar with mail systems will know, the users of MUAs do not usually
make micro-level decisions about exactly how to formulate the headers of
a reply message. (I can make such decisions with my mail reader though,
for example, since it's "just" a text editor, but I don't often do so. :-)
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