David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:40:39 -0400, Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote
>> Mozilla Mail and Thunderbird add X-Mozilla-Status and Status2
>> headers to all emails they recieve. I do not believe they are ever
>> added to outgoing emails, even if you are forwarding an email that
>> already has them.
>
> (And the little light goes on...)
>
> Is this why I've been receiving spam that's marked as already read in
> Thunderbird? I've been wondering about that. I suspect the
> idea is to try to
> get around Thunderbird's junk mail controls, since they're
> only run on unread
> messages.
MUA's creating headers for their own internal purposes is a dangerous idea.
But many do it. This may be the tip of the iceberg here.
Maybe there's a way to protect headers from being pre-filled. How about
something like this?
Create header names spaces
Not-For-Transfer-*:
X-Not-For-Transfer-*:
header name space (the second is a subset of the existing X-*: namespace)
Modify the SMTP standard to the effect that MTAs MUST strip all
[X-]Not-For-Transfer-*: headers
Grandfather BCC as a synonym for Not-For-Transfer-BCC:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 805.964.4554 x902
Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer
perl -e"map{y/a-z/l-za-k/;print}shift" "Jjhi pcdiwtg Ptga wprztg,"
