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"Dick Schoeller, ZKO3-3/Y25  01-Jun-1993 0839" (schoeller@gooey.enet.dec.com) writes on 2 June 93 at 17:07:12 +0200
>[...]
>As far as things like SMTP, you run into a problem there because the header
>information is in formatted plain text and most mailers allow the user direct
>access to that text, rather than parsing it and hiding behind translated UI.
>[...]

This isn't a problem with the SMTP protocol itself, but with most
MUAs.  Again, there is no reason that the MUA can't separate the
message header from the body of the message and present the
information contained in the "From:", "To:" lines, etc. with
native-language tags.

For example, instead of seeing a message like

-----
From: user@foo.bar.org
To: dsmith@ann-arbor.applicon.slb.com
Subject: A test

..
-----

I would see something like in a German MUA
-----
Ab: user@foo.bar.org
An: dsmith@ann-arbor.applicon.slb.com
Subjekt: A test

..
-----

This can be done as easily with SMTP as with MAIL11.  I've already
mentioned that "Zmail" has some support for this type of thing.

   Dan
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