[SpamCop-List] Re: Dubious FAQ entry 166.html

[Mike Easter]

Frank Ellermann wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>
>> So, that's what 'forwarding' means in the world of OE.

<snipping some parts I might have to draw a skeleton structure for
later>

> But the critical question, does this "OE forwarding" preserve
> the complete header (= message/rfc822) or only the body plus
> some mini-plain-text-ersatz-header (like Outlook) ?

That type of forwarding preserves only the body plus some mini-plaintext
ersatz header.

The standard is
Original message <headers>
From
To
Sent
Subject

> If it's
> the latter it can't really work for many other formats, and
> your example multipart/mixed starting with a text/html part
> is by far not the worst case.

I don't know about 'work' -- I would say that the emphasis is in
'transmitting' the body's content, the scanty ersatz headers are
'compatible' with the scanty headers which are normally displayed at the
'heading' when you open a mail in OE.  You see
From
Date
To
Subject

There isn't an alternate configuration.  The View menu 'All headers'
doesn't provide access to any more headers on a 'normal' mail.  You have
to go off somewhere else to get access to the complete headers, they are
never viewed with a view of the message opened, but are accessed with a
different 'mode'.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin