Re: mailserver: vs. expanded mailto: URL

Martin Hamilton writes:
> 
> Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no writes:
> 
> | Note that any system which sends mail without a manual check first
> | is, IMHO, dangerous.
> | So I certainly hope implementors of both mailto: and mailserver: URLs
> | do this stuff carefully....
> 
> I hacked up a "mailserver:" patch for X Mosaic which snarfs the 
> message into a regular "mailto:" type window.  This seems to be a 
> sensible approach - cf. <URL:http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/~martin/Mosaic
> -hacks/mailserver.patch>

  Definitely.  I was glad to see that from the start the mailserver spec
said that all user agents should _require_ user interaction before sending
the message.  If we go to an expanded mailto: URL as well, then this should
be part of the new draft.

-Bill P.

Received on Thursday, 23 November 1995 18:20:04 UTC