[ietf-dkim] Draft minutes...

[Eric Allman]

--On July 13, 2006 6:40:07 PM -0500 wayne <wayne at schlitt.net> wrote:

> RFC2822 directly talks about adding Resent-* headers and forwarding:
>
> Note: Reintroducing a message into the transport system and using
> resent fields is a different operation from "forwarding".
> "Forwarding" has two meanings: One sense of forwarding is that a
> mail reading program can be told by a user to forward a copy of a
> message to another person, making the forwarded message the body of
> the new message.  A forwarded message in this sense does not appear
> to have come from the original sender, but is an entirely new
> message from the forwarder of the message.  On the other hand,
> forwarding is also used to mean when a mail transport program gets
> a message and forwards it on to a different destination for final
> delivery.  Resent header fields are not intended for use with
> either type of forwarding.
>
> Please note the last sentence:  the Resent-* headers are not
> intended for use with forwarding.

The second kind of forwarding is not referring to Resending a 
message, it is referring to user forwarding, for example sendmail 
.forward files.  Note that in the second case the message never 
leaves the transport system (and thus the never ever directly acts on 
it).  Neither of those use or should use Resent.

eric