On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:21:38PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: > the only quasi-official reference i've been able to find on the > Mail-Followup-To header is: > > http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/98dec/I-D/draft-ietf-drums-mail-followup-to-00.txt > > while i think that this becoming standard would be a Good Thing, since > the draft is from 1997, it would seem unlikely that it will be adopted
> does anyone else have information on what it would take to set the > proverbial wheel turning on getting this adopted as some sort of > official standard? > There are many RFC's in use as "standards" that never got beyond being draft standards "officially" I believe. If anyone wants to put some energy into this try and get Microsoft to adhere to a few standard standards with regard to email, that would be some achievement. To answer your question I should think there is zilch you can do about it. Sounds to me like the pine-people are just batting you off. Inter-operabilty.. who needs it ..lol. Wietse Venema, the author of Postfix, remarked once on the amount of code he had in his software to get around broken mailer implementations. -- Regards Cliff
