Re: [exim] Header error message

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Marc Sherman
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Header error message
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Marc Sherman wrote:

> You're only setting Mail-Followup-To. That, and your .sig file, suggest that
> you expect this mailing list to follow Debian's list policies, which it
> doesn't -- most don't. MFT is a non-standard header, that is not widely
> supported in MUAs. As near as I can tell from Google, the IETF draft has
> expired without getting an RFC number assigned, and it wasn't included in
> rfc2822, which was published 4 years later.


There was another discussion on the ietf-822 mailing list a few months
back. As before, it got itself into a rathole and no conclusion emerged,
and the thread died of exhaustion. I suspect this is yet another case of
the perfect being the enemy of the good.

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