29067 - Sender support

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Backend, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

If you recieve a meeting mail sent from Outlook and forward this mail to a 
Mozilla account you new mail will look something like this:

---
From: OutlookSender <[e-mail]>
Sender: OutlookReciever <[e-mail]>
To: Mozilla <[e-mail]>
---

Meaning that the origional mail was sent from "OutlookSender <[e-mail]>" to 
"OutlookReciever <[e-mail]>" who then forwarded to "Mozilla 
<[e-mail]>"

In Outlook I think they call it "On behalf mails"

When reading the forwarded mail in Mozilla it shows up like the From is 
"OutlookSender <[e-mail]>" when in fact the real sender of the forwarded 
mail is "OutlookReciever <[e-mail]>"

Does this just happen because Outlook brakes the specs?

Comment 1

[Phil Peterson]

It sounds to me like you're descibing "secretary-sent" in the language of 
RFC 822, section A.2. If it's true that OutlookSender is the executive who gets 
his/her secretary to send his email for him/her, and OutlookReceiver is the 
secretary, then I think we're doing the right thing. 

If Outlook shows the Sender rather than the From, and there's no Reply-To in the 
headers, than they're doing the wrong thing with respect to RFC 822.

As I understand your scenario, this bug is invalid, but let me know if I've 
misunderstood.

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

What Phil said was correct...no response from Henrik in three months regarding 
whether Phil was understanding correctly, so verifying...