[MlMt] Bounce emails?

[Joachim Tingvold]

On 9 Jun 2012, at 8:16, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
> First, I would like to make sure we use the same terminology. The term 
> used for the above should be “resending”.

Fair enough -- many clients use the term "bounce", though (like Mutt).

> Bouncing is what is done by SMTP servers when they reject a message, 
> for example, when a user does not exist, and just to be clear: 
> Bouncing is never going to be a feature in MailMate.

Sure. Don't have any use for that anyways (-:

> “Resending” is described in [RFC 5322][1]. It is required that 
> headers are added to the message which clearly shows that it has been 
> resent. Most email clients should show these headers, but this is 
> where it gets embarrassing: MailMate does not show these headers (I 
> really should fix that).

Even if you view the raw source/extended headers? (alt+cmd+u)

> I don't have a strong opinion against implementing resending as 
> described in the RFC, but most users requesting it have also asked to 
> be able to edit the message as part of resending (apparently supported 
> by other email clients). I don't like that except if MailMate forces 
> the user to only be able to prefix the message with a plain text 
> comment (both the resend-headers and any prefixed text breaks the 
> unique email aspect of the `Message-ID` header).

Personally I don't have the need to edit the email before resending it. 
If I wanted to add comments, I would use normal forward.

-- 
Joachim