[kdepim-users] A suggestion for kmail

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Sun Dec 21 12:02:03 GMT 2008


On Saturday 20 December 2008, Daniel Vérité wrote:
> 	 Ingo Klöcker writes
>
> > There seems to be a Delivered-to header, but I haven't found useful
> > information about it.
>
> It's used to detect mail forwarding loops but it's not mandatory.
> FWIW, the RFC 2076 has a list of common message headers with
> comments, and a more useful updated version is also available here:
> http://people.dsv.su.se/~jpalme/ietf/mail-headers/mail-headers.html

Thanks!


> > If you have a suggestion how to determine the email address the
> > message was sent to, I'd be interested to hear it.
>
> There's really no method that would work for all mail servers and
> configurations. The bottom line is that it's up to the users to come
> up with filters that match whatever field their servers appear to
> add, if any!

Exactly. KMail is flexible enough to do this, but it requires the user to 
set it up. I don't see much room for improvement because there's no 
existing standard supporting this.


Regards,
Ingo

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