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

Christopher Fraser (chrisf@sour.sw.oz.au)
Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:40:37 +1100 (EST)

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    From: chrisf@sour.sw.oz.au (Christopher Fraser)

    Message-Id: <199501100340.AA11196@sour.sw.oz.au>

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

    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:40:37 +1100 (EST)

    In-Reply-To: <ab3775cf000210038cd0@DialupEudora> from "Paul Hoffman" at Jan 9, 95 04:16:41 pm

But I thought Paul Hoffman said:
> [ ... ]
> 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.

It looks good to me. A useful addition would be an token which gets
replaced with the user's email address by the browser before the mail
gets sent. Why would this be useful? I can think of three reasons:

* Some people like to have mailing-list traffic delivered to a different
email address to their usual one.
* Some mailing-list software likes the senders address to be included in
the subject or body of the message.
* Some browsers run on machines other than where mail should be delivered
to (uncommon, I know).
I'm not sure what the best way be to encode such a token would be. Anyone
got any ideas?

Cheers,

    --
    Christopher Fraser   ``First time surrealists are often confused by the
    chrisf@sw.oz.au        similarities between fish and telephones.''

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