On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:13:53AM -0500, Sahil Tandon wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Feb 2009, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > Yes. It will break the complete mail handling of the client. _Never_
> > ever touch a message id.
> Do explain how adding/replacing a valid Message-ID only to submitted mail
> will "break the complete mail handling of the client".
I mean replacing or deleting already set Message-Id headers. And it will
break MUA driven thread handling and similar things which is based on
the original submitted ID.
> And how do you
> reconcile your last sentence with section 8.3 of RFC 4409?
Please read the RFC again. This sentence only speaks about _adding_ this
header, not about replacing or deleting it. There is however no other
point which allows arbitrary modifications to the messages.
Bastian
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