# Re: Second round for new URL scheme (mailserver)

Dirk Herr-Hoyman (hoymand@gate.net)
Tue, 10 Jan 1995 09:06:14 -0500

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    Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 09:06:14 -0500

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    To: ietf-lists@proper.com (Paul Hoffman), uri@bunyip.com

    From: hoymand@gate.net (Dirk Herr-Hoyman)

    Subject: Re: Second round for new URL scheme (mailserver)

At 12:16 AM 1/10/95, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>The "mailserver" URL has the form:
>
> mailserver:<rfc822-addr-spec>/<subject>/<body>/[<other-headers>]
>
>Client software would prepare a mail message with the <subject> text as the
>subject and the <body> text as the body of the message.
>

Paul, I see a couple of problems here. First, you are assuming the body
only has a single line. This is not always true, many mail servers let you
send multiple commands on multiple lines. The / is my original proposal
was meant to specify the end of line. Here, it's just a separator. For
this to work, you would have to encode an end of line, which was something
I was trying to avoid.
The way I had it, was to just allow for arbitary lines, separated by /,
with the convention that // would be needed to designate the end of the
header. Just like a mail message.

Second, a proper e-mail message needs a From: line in the header. Clearly,
this is a client side issue, but I think it should be spelled out in the
specification that this must be added.

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