Re: mailserver: vs. expanded mailto: URL
Al Gilman (asg@severn.wash.inmet.com)
Fri, 24 Nov 1995 01:03:29 -0500 (EST)
From: asg@severn.wash.inmet.com (Al Gilman)
Message-Id: <9511240603.AA26689@severn.wash.inmet.com>
Subject: Re: mailserver: vs. expanded mailto: URL
To: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 01:03:29 -0500 (EST)
Cc: uri@bunyip.com
In-Reply-To: <199511231254.NAA03887@dale.uninett.no> from "Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no" at Nov 23, 95 01:54:15 pm
To follow up on what Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no said ...
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....
The discussion has at least proved (to me) that it would be a Good Thing
to have someone <volunteers queue to the left, please..> write up some
guidelines for how mailto: should be implemented.
Most of what you have to worry about is mail-client-generic and
should be handled by a reference by title to whatever the mail
security group tells us.
One URL-specific function that I don't want to forget is that the
current context URL -- the equivalent of the "Referrer:" header in
HTTP -- should be automatically affixed to the sent mail by the
client as perhaps a "Referrer:" or the weaker "References:"
header.
And I would be glad to do what I can to help with this.
Al