On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 03:29:55AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > >On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:22:02PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > > >># Mail-copies-to: never > >># Mail-followup-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>Aren't these the vaunted headers? And yet, I get cc'd, or directly > >>emailed, all the time. Either people's clients or broken, or they are. > >>Either way, the headers don't work. Not reliably. > >> > > > >Unfortunately, those headers are not specified in the relevant RFCs and > >are not in wide use outside of Linux and other highly technical mailing > >lists. Support for MFT and MCT headers is strictly optional, so many > >mail client authors/vendors simply choose not to support them. > > If they're not blessed by RFC then they should be X-Mail-copies-to: etc. > All permissible headers are enumerated by RFC, and if they're not in the > list they are explicitly disallowed.
I believe it was proposed in an RFC and rejected. I guess people got annoyed and started using it anyway. -- You win again, gravity! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
