# Re: Mailserver URL proposal

Stephen R. van den Berg (berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
Mon, 25 Jul 1994 13:12:06 +0200

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    From: berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)

    Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 13:12:06 +0200

    In-Reply-To: Marc VanHeyningen's message as of 1994 Jul 22 Fri 14:00.

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    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Subject: Re: Mailserver URL proposal

Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>Thus wrote: Larry Masinter
>>a) Is it vaguely possible to extend 'mailto:' to cover both its
>>current interpretation and also the mailserver case?

>This seems reasonable to me...

I'm not sure how much I missed about this discussion, but, here are
some things that I had in mind:

1. Having read the mailserver proposal I got the impression that you intend
for the server to actually send the mail. I think this definitely is the
wrong way to go. The client should be calling sendmail (or whatever),
this also resolves the problem of somehow passing the sender address, since
it will be generated by sendmail (who is actually the only one capable of
deciding what it should look like).

2. The mailto: URL already allows for arbitray headers to be defined.
What about implementing the "mailserver" URL like this:

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="mailto:berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de">
<MH HIDDEN>Subject: WWW Questionaire</MH>
<MB HIDDEN>
This will be in the body
of the mail
</MB>
<P ALIGN=CENTER><INPUT TYPE=submit>
</FORM>

If the submit button is pressed, a mail will go out looking like:

Subject: WWW Questionaire

This will be in the body
of the mail

Sendmail will put the proper From: line on it and send it along.
This seems to cover everything "mailserver" wants to do, and is
much easier to read (and construct).

    --
    Sincerely,                                  berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
               Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).

    "Be spontaneous!"

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