# Re: Mailserver URL proposal

Dirk Herr-Hoyman (hoymand@gate.net)
Wed, 20 Jul 1994 21:22:43 -0400

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    Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 21:22:43 -0400

    Message-Id: <199407210122.VAA99065@inca.gate.net>

    To: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>

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

    Subject: Re: Mailserver URL proposal

At 10:57 AM 7/20/94 +0100, Martin Hamilton wrote:

>One oher thing strikes me - the address field is ambiguous:
>
> URL:mailserver://president@whitehouse.gov/To:%20clinton@whitehouse.gov/...
>
>Perhaps the mailserver spec ought to clarify which of these
>takes precedence ?
>
>Finally, is it really necessary to allow the URL to specify the
>value of _any_ header ? Perhaps we could get away with
>
> URL:mailserver://<rfc822-addr-spec>/<subject>/<body>
>
>where <subject> becomes the RHS of the Subject: header, if supplied
>
Martin, I think this idea has merit. I was trying to contend with any
possible mailserver, but in fact most use the body for commands, with the
Subject line being the only header based command I have seen. I would
certainly make things simpler if we only allowed the Subject and From
headers. This also follows the MIME message/mailserver content-type, which
allows only for a Subject header line.

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