From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Fri Apr 09 2010 - 17:16:51 CDT

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Victor Duchovni:
> On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:09:27PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > One question I have is why would anyone send an email message that
> > is 100% identical to a message that is already sitting in an IMAP
> > store? It would seem that this is useful only when forwarding mail
> > verbatim. Is this worth the effort to adopt and forever maintain
> > another 1500 lines of code?
>
> This is designed for bandwidth constrained email clients

Perhaps the question is not clear, so I will repeat it.

What is the use case for sending an email message that is 100%
identical to an already received email message, as in, no user
content is added to the message, and no content is deleted from
the message?

        Wietse

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